Xenocrates of Aphrodisias
Greek physician of Aphrodisias in Cilicia, who must have lived about the middle of the 1st century
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Xenocrates of Aphrodisias was a physician and pharmacologist.
Xenocrates (; fl. 1st century) a Greek physician of Aphrodisias in Cilicia, who must have lived about the middle of the 1st century, as he was probably a contemporary of Andromachus the Younger. Galen says that he lived in the second generation before himself. He wrote some pharmaceutical works, and is blamed by Galen He is several times quoted by Galen, and also by Clement of Alexandria; Artemidorus; Pliny; Oribasius; Aëtius; and Alexander of Tralles. Besides some short fragments of his writings there is extant a synopsis of a work on marine creatures, preserved by Oribasius.
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Greek physician of Aphrodisias in Cilicia, who must have lived about the middle of the 1st century
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