Organikos for anthrax; a machine-maker (organikos) might well have remarked upon ambe ̄.
O, Coll. 48.41 (CMG 6.2.1, p. 282), cites Apollo ̄nios The ̄r for the “Mono ̄ps”
bandage; Michler 121 suggests “Organikos” might be A A; von
Staden (1989) 549 suggests that the ̄r might mean “mouse,” i.e., that he may be A
“M.”
Michler (1968) 82–83, 119–122.
PTK
Apollo ̄nios (of Alexandria?) (200 – 150 BCE?)
A P’s son, entrusted with delivering Conics Book 2 (Con. 2.pr.)
Netz (1997) #10.
GLIM
Apollo ̄nios of Alexandria, “Mus” (ca 50 BCE – 30 CE)
He ̄rophilean physician, K’ student,
H E’s fellow pupil
(S 14.1.34), wrote On the School of He ̄rophilos
(29+ books, apparently a comprehensive treatment
of physiological and pathological theory), cited
extensively by medical writers including C,
A, A P.,
S, G, P, O,
A A, and the Hippokratic commen-
tators I A and P
(see further von Staden [1989]; Oreibasios and
Aëtios also often cite an unspecified Apollo ̄nios);
also by P (1.ind.28, 28.7), Athe ̄naios, and P-
(Quaest. Nat. 3 [912D–E]). The well-attested
but ambiguous nickname may mean “mouse,”
“muscle,” or “mussel.”
Like other He ̄rophileans, Apollo ̄nios’ interests
included pulse theory, where he concurred with
Khrusermos and He ̄rakleide ̄s: the pulse occurs through the agency of a (dominant) vital
and psychic faculty (AM.4 von Staden). Other fragments, from On Common Remedies (several
volumes), address garden variety ailments, toothaches, earaches, skin disorders, dandruff,
treatable with ingredients from the mundane to the bizarre: e.g. bull or camel urine or turtle
blood against dandruff (G considered turtle blood impractical: 12.475–482 K.), don-
key urine for a sore throat, which remedy Gale ̄n finds astonishingly repugnant (12.979– 983
K.). Although Apollo ̄nios distinguishes, for example, categories of headaches – those caused
by heatstroke, chills, intoxication, blows to the head, falls (AM.12–16 von Staden) – Gale ̄n
criticizes Apollo ̄nios for prescribing remedies generically without properly noting causes and
symptoms, an approach with potential for harm (ibid.). Preserved are Apollo ̄nios’ recom-
mendations for using leeches (AM.30 von Staden), his antidote compounded from rue,
walnuts, salt, and iskhas (AM.31 von Staden), and, from the Euporista, Book 1, his tooth-
whiteners, one consisting of mineral salt roasted with honey on a shell, then ground with
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