Antigonus_(physician)

Antigonus (physician)

Antigonus (physician)

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Antigonus (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίγονος) was an ancient Greek army surgeon, mentioned by Galen, who must therefore have lived in or before the second century CE.[1] Marcellus Empiricus quotes a physician of the same name, who may very possibly be the same person;[2] and Lucian mentions an impudent quack named Antigonus, who among other things, said that one of his patients had been restored to life after having been buried for twenty days.[3]

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  1. [1]
    Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 2.1, vol. xii. pp. 557, 580
  2. [2]
    Marcellus Empiricus, De Medicare. 100.8. pp. 266, 267, 274
  3. [3]
    Lucian, Philopseudes, §§ 21, 25, 26. vol. iii. ed. Tauchn

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Antigonus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 189.


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