Zeno (or Zenon, Koinē Greek: Ζήνων; 3rd and 2nd centuries BC) was a Greek physician.
He was one of the most eminent of the followers of Herophilus, [1] whom Galen calls "no ordinary man," [2] and who is said by Diogenes Laërtius [3] to have been better able to think than to write. He lived probably at the end of the 3rd and beginning of the 2nd centuries BC, as he was a contemporary of Apollonius Empiricus, with whom he carried on a controversy concerning the meaning of certain marks ( Koinē Greek: χαρακτῆρες) that are found at the end of some of the chapters of the third book of the Epidemics of Hippocrates. [4] He gave particular attention to the materia medica, [5] and is perhaps the physician whose medical formulae are quoted by Galen, [6] in which case he must have been a native of Laodicea. He is mentioned in several other passages by Galen, and also by Erotianus; [7] perhaps also by Pliny, [8] Caelius Aurelianus, [9] Alexander of Aphrodisias, [10] and Rufus of Ephesus, [11] but this is uncertain.
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He was one of the most eminent of the followers of Herophilus, [1] whom Galen calls "no ordinary man," [2] and who is said by Diogenes Laërtius [3] to have been better able to think than to write. He lived probably at the end of the 3rd and beginning of the 2nd centuries BC, as he was a contemporary of Apollonius Empiricus, with whom he carried on a controversy concerning the meaning of certain marks ( Koinē Greek: χαρακτῆρες) that are found at the end of some of the chapters of the third book of the Epidemics of Hippocrates. [4] He gave particular attention to the materia medica, [5] and is perhaps the physician whose medical formulae are quoted by Galen, [6] in which case he must have been a native of Laodicea. He is mentioned in several other passages by Galen, and also by Erotianus; [7] perhaps also by Pliny, [8] Caelius Aurelianus, [9] Alexander of Aphrodisias, [10] and Rufus of Ephesus, [11] but this is uncertain.
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