Philinus of Cos ( el, Φιλῖνος ὁ Κῷος; 3rd century BC) was a
Greek physician. He was the reputed founder of the
Empiric school
The Empiric school of medicine (''Empirics'', ''Empiricists'', or ''Empirici'', el, Ἐμπειρικοί) was a school of medicine founded in Alexandria the middle of the third century BC. The school was a major influence on ancient Greek and Ro ...
. He was a pupil of
Herophilus
Herophilos (; grc-gre, Ἡρόφιλος; 335–280 BC), sometimes Latinised Herophilus, was a Greek physician regarded as one of the earliest anatomists. Born in Chalcedon, he spent the majority of his life in Alexandria. He was the first ...
, a contemporary of
Bacchius
A bacchius () is a metrical foot used in poetry.
In accentual-syllabic verse we could describe a bacchius as a foot that goes like this:
Example:
When day breaks
the fish bite
at small flies.
The Christmas carol 'No Small Wonder' by Paul Ed ...
, and a predecessor of
Serapion. He wrote a work on part of the Hippocratic collection directed against Bacchius, and also one on
botany
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek w ...
, neither of which has survived. It is perhaps this later work that is quoted by
Athenaeus
Athenaeus of Naucratis (; grc, Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; la, Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of th ...
,
Pliny
Pliny may refer to:
People
* Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE), ancient Roman nobleman, scientist, historian, and author of ''Naturalis Historia'' (''Pliny's Natural History'')
* Pliny the Younger (died 113), ancient Roman statesman, orator, w ...
, and
Andromachus.
[Andromachus, ap Galen, ''De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc.'', vii. 6, ''De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen.'' v. 13, vol. xiii.]
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