Back أسكليبياديس البيثيني Arabic اسكليبياديس البيثينى ARZ Asclepíades Bitini Catalan Asklepiades von Bithynien German Ασκληπιάδης ο Προυσαεύς Greek Asklepiado el Bitinio Esperanto Asclepíades de Bitinia Spanish آسکلپیادس بیتونیایی Persian Asclépiade de Bithynie French אסקלפיאדס איש ביתיניה HE
Asclepiades (Greek: Ἀσκληπιάδης; c. 129/124 BC – 40 BC[1][2]), sometimes called Asclepiades of Bithynia or Asclepiades of Prusa, was a Greek physician born at Prusias-on-Sea[3] in Bithynia in Anatolia and who flourished at Rome, where he practised and taught Greek medicine. He attempted to build a new theory of disease, based on the flow of "atoms" through pores in the body. His treatments sought to restore harmony through the use of diet, exercise, and bathing.
Biographer Antonio Cocchi noted that there were over forty men of history with the name Asclepiades[4] and wrote that physician Caius Calpurnius Asclepiades of Prusa, born 88 CE, was a fellow countryman of, and perhaps a direct descendant of this Asclepiades.[5]
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- ^ "Asclepiades of Bithynia | Greek physician". Encyclopædia Britannica. 20 July 1998. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
- ^ Rawson, Elizabeth (1982). "The Life and Death of Asclepiades of Bithynia". Classical Quarterly. 32 (2): 358–70. doi:10.1017/S0009838800026549. PMID 11619646.
- ^ Cocchi, Antonio (1762). "Cocchi, Antonio, The Life of Asclepiades, 2".
- ^ Cocchi, Antonio (1762). "Cocchi, Antonio, The Life of Asclepiades, 19".