Heraclides of Erythrae ( grc-gre, Ἡρακλείδης; fl. 1st century BC), a physician of
Erythrae in
Ionia
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, who was a pupil of
Chrysermus,
[Galen, ''De Differ. Puls.'', iv. 10, vol. viii.] a fellow-pupil of
Apollonius, and a contemporary of
Strabo
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in the 1st century BC.
Galen calls him the most distinguished of the pupils of Chrysermus,
and mentions a work written by him, ''On the school of
Herophilus'' ( el, Περὶ τῆς Ἡροφίλου Αἱρέσεως), consisting of at least seven books. He wrote a commentary on the sixth book of
Hippocrates, ''De Morbis Vulgaribus'',
[Galen, ''Comment. in Hippocr. Epid. VI.'', i. praef. vol. xvii. pt. i] but neither this nor any of his writings survive.
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1st-century BC Greek physicians
1st-century BC writers
Ionians
Writers of lost works