Antaeus ( grc, Ἀνταῖος) or Anthaeus (Ἀνθαῖος) was a physician of ancient Greece, whose outlandish remedy for

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is mentioned by

Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic ' ...

, and consisted of deriving a potion from the skull of a hanged man. One of his prescriptions is preserved by

Galen Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus ( el, Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; September 129 – c. AD 216), often Anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Considered to be one ...

, '' De Compositione Medicamentorum Secundum Locus'' iv. 8. vol. xii. p. 764 Nothing is known of the events of his life, but, as Pliny mentions him, he must have lived some time in or before the first century CE.

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