PHARMACOLOGIST, PHYSICIAN

Life
Cited by Galen, Alexander of Tralles and Suidas, according to which he wrote "many works on medicine and physic". Very little is known of him beyond the fact that his father's name was Philip, that he studied with Agathinus, and that he lived in Rome during the reign of Trajan. His writings survive only in fragments, and mainly in the works of other writers.


Work
His principal works are:

"On Medicines": Systematic and detailed description of the pharmaceutical remedies of his age. This treatise was studied and used by many physicians (Galen, Alexander of Tralles, Paul of Aegina).

"On ailing members"

"On the usefulness of the beaver" (beaver testicles)

"On remedies": 11 books.

"On the correct dose of hellebore"

"On venomous animals and poisonous drugs": Detailed description of serpents. Important for the history of zoology.