Asclepiades of Bithynia
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- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Science, Medicine, Health
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Empires, Dynasties, Scientists, Doctors, Physicians, Nurses, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece, Roman Empire, Ancient Rome
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Roman physician{$I[g]Roman Republic;Asclepiades} Asclepiades was the first physician to establish Greek medicine in Rome.
Early Life
Asclepiades (as-klee-PI-uh-deez), whose father was probably Andreas, a noted physiologist of the time, was born in Prusa, also called Cios, in Bithynia, Asia Minor. A widely read man, he seems to have had a liberal education in his youth. Apparently, there was enough money for him to be able to travel and study.
After studying rhetoric and medicine in Athens and Alexandria, he practiced medicine,...
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