Xenocrates ( Greek: Ξενοκράτης; fl. 1st century) a Greek physician of Aphrodisias in Cilicia, [1] who must have lived about the middle of the 1st century, as he was probably a contemporary of Andromachus the Younger. [2] Galen says that he lived in the second generation before himself. [3] He wrote some pharmaceutical works, and is blamed by Galen [3] for making use of disgusting remedies, for instance, human brains, flesh, liver, bone ash, urine, excrement, etc. One of his works was entitled On Useful Things from Living Beings ( Greek: Περὶ τῆς ἀπὸ τῶν Ζώων Ὠφελείας). [4] He is several times quoted by Galen, and also by Clement of Alexandria; [5] Artemidorus; [6] Pliny; [7] Oribasius; [8] Aëtius; [9] and Alexander of Tralles. [10] Besides some short fragments of his writings there is extant a synopsis of a work on marine creatures, ( Greek: Περὶ τῆς ἀπὸ τῶν Ἐνύδρων Τροφῆς) preserved by Oribasius.
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help)Xenocrates ( Greek: Ξενοκράτης; fl. 1st century) a Greek physician of Aphrodisias in Cilicia, [1] who must have lived about the middle of the 1st century, as he was probably a contemporary of Andromachus the Younger. [2] Galen says that he lived in the second generation before himself. [3] He wrote some pharmaceutical works, and is blamed by Galen [3] for making use of disgusting remedies, for instance, human brains, flesh, liver, bone ash, urine, excrement, etc. One of his works was entitled On Useful Things from Living Beings ( Greek: Περὶ τῆς ἀπὸ τῶν Ζώων Ὠφελείας). [4] He is several times quoted by Galen, and also by Clement of Alexandria; [5] Artemidorus; [6] Pliny; [7] Oribasius; [8] Aëtius; [9] and Alexander of Tralles. [10] Besides some short fragments of his writings there is extant a synopsis of a work on marine creatures, ( Greek: Περὶ τῆς ἀπὸ τῶν Ἐνύδρων Τροφῆς) preserved by Oribasius.
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