Aeschines (physician)
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Aeschines ( grc, Αἰσχίνης) was a Greek ancient physician who lived in the latter half of the 4th century AD. He was born on the island of
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, and settled at
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, where he appears to have practiced with little success, but acquired fame by a cure of Eunapius Sardianus, who on his voyage to Athens had been seized with a fever, which yielded only to treatment of a peculiar nature. Another Athenian physician of this name is quoted by
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,
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, '' Historia Naturalis'' xxviii. 10
of whom it is only known that he must have lived some time before the middle of the 1st century AD.


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4th-century Greek physicians {{AncientGreece-bio-stub