Chrysippus of Cnidos ( grc-gre, Χρύσιππος ὁ Κνίδιος, 4th century BC) was a Greek physician. He was the son of Erineus,
[ Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 89] and a contemporary of
Praxagoras
Praxagoras ( grc, Πραξαγόρας ὁ Κῷος) was a figure of medicine in ancient Greece. He was born on the Greek island of Kos in about 340 BC. Both his father, Nicarchus, and his grandfather were physicians. Very little is known of ...
, a pupil of
Eudoxus of Cnidos and
Philistion of Locri,
father of Chrysippus the physician to
Ptolemy Soter
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, and tutor to
Erasistratus
Erasistratus (; grc-gre, Ἐρασίστρατος; c. 304 – c. 250 BC) was a Greek anatomist and royal physician under Seleucus I Nicator of Syria. Along with fellow physician Herophilus, he founded a school of anatomy in Alexandria, where th ...
,
Aristogenes,
[Galen, ''De Ven. sect. adv. Erasistr. Rom. Deg.'' c. 2, et ''De Cur. Rat. per Ven. Sect.'' c. 2, vol. xi. pp. 197, 252] Medius
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,
and
Metrodorus. He accompanied his tutor Eudoxus into
Egypt
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, but nothing more is known of the events of his life. He wrote several works, which are not now extant, and
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 ...
says, that even in his time they were in danger of being lost. Several of his medical opinions are, however, preserved by Galen, by whom he is frequently quoted and referred to.
[Galen, ''De Ven. Sect. adv. Erasistr.'', etc., vol. xi. pp. 149, etc., 171, ettc., 197, 221, etc.]
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4th-century BC Greek physicians