Aristogeito ̄n (of Boio ̄tian The ̄bai?) (60 – 75 CE)
P 27.31 (cf. 1.ind.27), listing him after H, records that he prescribed the
Skuthian herb anonymus for wounds. After the 1st c. BCE, the name is attested only from
Boio ̄tian The ̄bai.
Fabricius (1726) 83.
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Aristogene ̄s of Knidos (260 – 240 BCE)
The Souda A-3911 credits him with curing Antigonos “Gonatas,” King of Macedon
(reigned 284– 239 BCE). Scholars generally equate him with the widely cited anethnic doc-
tor, but cf. A T. The A C, B confutes
Aristogene ̄s’ theory of breath and respiration, that air is somehow “digested” via the lungs
which also excrete some residue, 2 (481a28–30), that respiration extends only to the lungs
(i.e., not to the whole body as E had taught), 2 (481b17–18), and that the
respiratory vessels grow like other body parts and when larger contain more air. P
mentions Aristogene ̄s as an authority on drugs from animals and minerals (1.ind. 29 – 30,
33 – 35), and C, who refers to a “student of Chrysippus at the court of Antigonus”
(presumably K K (II)), cites Aristogene ̄s’ emollient of natron, squill,
sulfur, etc. in terebinth, bovine suet, and beeswax, 5.18.27. G records that he and
M, students of Khrusippos of Knidos (II), abjured phlebotomy as did E-
: On Venesection, Against the Erasistrateans in Rome 2 (11.197 K. = p. 43 Brain), Treatment by
Venesection 2 (11.252 K. = p. 68 Brain), cf. probably CMG 5.9.1, pp. 69–70.
RE 2.1 (1895) 932–933 (#5), M. Wellmann.
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Aristogene ̄s of Thasos (unknown date)
The Souda A-3910 credits him with 24 works, including Biting Beasts, Diet, Health, Semen, and
an Epitome of Natural Remedies. Usually identified with A K.
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A ⇒ P
Aristokle ̄s (120 BCE – 80 CE)
Pharmacologist, three of whose recipes A preserves in G. His remedy
for oral infections, later used by A (the one cited by A or else
Gale ̄n’s contemporary the Methodist), included oak-gall cooked in vinegar until tender,
myrrh, Indian nard, rhubarb, 20 peppercorns, Attic honey, and mandrake seeds (CMLoc 6.6
[12.936 K.]). His remedy for the liver and internal ailments consisted in pepper, myrrh,
saffron, kostos, meo ̄n, yellow iris, nard, carrot seeds, parsley, skordion, cinnamon, cassia,
mixed with sufficient honey (CMLoc 8.6 [13.205 K.]). Aristokle ̄s’ emollient was compounded
of pitch, beeswax, resin, terebinth, ammo ̄niakon incense, and galbanum (CMGen 7.6
[13.977 K.]).
RE 2.1 (1895) 937 (#20), M. Wellmann.
GLIM
ARISTOKLE ̄S