About Philinus of Cos
Born 400 BC. Philinus of Cos was a physician and writer.
Philinus of Cos (; 3rd century BC) was a Greek physician. He was the reputed founder of the Empiric school. He was a pupil of Herophilus, a contemporary of Bacchius, and a predecessor of Serapion. He wrote a work on part of the Hippocratic collection directed against Bacchius, and also one on botany, neither of which has survived. It is perhaps this later work that is quoted by Athenaeus, Pliny
, and Andromachus.
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Who was Philinus of Cos?
ancient Greek physician
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Philinus of Cos was born in 400 BC in Kos.
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Philinus of Cos was a physician and writer.
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