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Archagathus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχάγαθος), a Peloponnesian, the son of Lysanias, who settled at Rome as a practitioner of medicine around 219 BCE, and, according to Lucius Cassius Hemina, [1] was the first person who made it a distinct profession in that city.
Archagathus of Libya (flourished 4th century BC and 3rd century BC), a Syracusan Greek Prince and a posthumous paternal half-brother to the first named Archagathus. He was the third son of Agathocles of Syracuse from his third wife Theoxena of Syracuse; Archagathus (son of Lysanias), a physician who lived in the 2nd century BC
Archagathus (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχάγαθος, fl. 4th century BC) was a Syracusan Greek Prince of Magna Graecia. He was the son of Archagathus by a wife whose name is unknown, being a paternal grandson of the Greek tyrant (and later "king" of Sicily) Agathocles of Syracuse from his first wife.
Dentistry developed during the early parts of Roman history, which may be due to the arrival of a Greek doctor named Archagathus. Ancient Roman oral surgical tools included the curettes, osteotomes, cauteries, scalpels, bone forceps, [1] and bone levers. [2] The ancient Romans invented the usage of narcotics during dental surgery.
Galen of Pergamon (129 – c. AD 216) [18] was a prominent Greek [19] physician, whose theories dominated Western medical science for well over a millennium. [20] By the age of 20, he had served for four years in the local temple as a therapeutes ("attendant" or "associate") of Asclepius .
Science Journal for Kids is an online scientific journal that publishes adaptations designed for children and teens of academic research papers that were originally published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals, as well as science teaching resources for teachers.
The Eclectic school of medicine (Eclectics, or Eclectici, Greek: Ἐκλεκτικοί) was an ancient school of medicine in ancient Greece and Rome.They were so-called because they selected from each sect the opinions which seemed to them most probable.
For example, in one aphorism in the first section, Hippocrates states: "Things which are growing have the greatest natural warmth and, accordingly, need most nourishment. Failing this the body becomes exhausted. Old men have little warmth and they need little food which produces warmth; too much only extinguishes the warmth they have.