Menodotus of Nicomedia
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Menodotus of Nicomedia
in Bithynia
, was a physician
; a pupil of Antiochus of Laodicea; and tutor to Herodotus of Tarsus
. He belonged to the Empirical school
, and lived probably about the beginning of the 2nd century. He refuted some of the opinions of Asclepiades of Bithynia
, and was exceedingly severe against the Dogmatists
. He enjoyed a considerable reputation in his day, and is several times quoted and mentioned by Galen
. He appears to have written some works which are quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
, but are not now extant.
Nicomedia
Nicomedia was an ancient city in what is now Turkey, founded in 712/11 BC as a Megarian colony and was originally known as Astacus . After being destroyed by Lysimachus, it was rebuilt by Nicomedes I of Bithynia in 264 BC under the name of Nicomedia, and has ever since been one of the most...
in Bithynia
Bithynia
Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine .-Description:...
, was a physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
; a pupil of Antiochus of Laodicea; and tutor to Herodotus of Tarsus
Herodotus (physician)
Herodotus was the name of more than one physician in the time of ancient Greece and Rome:*A pupil of Athenaeus, or perhaps Agathinus, who belonged to the Pneumatic school. He probably lived towards the end of the 1st century AD, and lived at Rome, where he practised medicine with great success...
. He belonged to the Empirical school
Empiric school
The Empiric school of medicine was an ancient school of medicine in ancient Greece and Rome. They were so called from the word empeiria because they professed to derive their knowledge from experiences only, and in doing so set themselves in opposition to the Dogmatic school...
, and lived probably about the beginning of the 2nd century. He refuted some of the opinions of Asclepiades of Bithynia
Asclepiades of Bithynia
Asclepiades was a Greek physician born at Prusa in Bithynia in Asia Minor and flourished at Rome, where he established Greek medicine near the end of the 2nd century BCE. He attempted to build a new theory of disease, based on the flow of atoms through pores in the body...
, and was exceedingly severe against the Dogmatists
Dogmatic school
The Dogmatic school of medicine was an ancient school of medicine in ancient Greece and Rome. They were the oldest of the medical sects of antiquity. They derived their name from dogma, a philosophical tenet or opinion, because they professed to follow the opinions of Hippocrates, hence they were...
. He enjoyed a considerable reputation in his day, and is several times quoted and mentioned by Galen
Galen
Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus , better known as Galen of Pergamon , was a prominent Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher...
. He appears to have written some works which are quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
Diogenes Laertius
Diogenes Laertius was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is one of the principal surviving sources for the history of Greek philosophy.-Life:Nothing is definitively known about his life...
, but are not now extant.