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  2. Archagathus (son of Lysanias) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Archagathus - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field

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    Media studies: Marshall McLuhan: Emphasized the importance of medium, and coined terms like "global village" and "the medium is the message" [210] Political science: Aristotle Niccolò Machiavelli* Thomas Hobbes** Aristotle is called the father of political science largely because of his work entitled Politics. This treatise is divided into ...

  5. Archagathus (son of Agathocles of Syracuse) - Wikipedia

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    Archagathus narrowly escaped being put to death in a tumult of soldiers, an event precipitated by him having murdered a man named Lyciscus, who reproached him in committing incest with his step-mother Alcia, [4] the mother of his paternal half-sister, Lanassa. When his father was summoned from Carthage to return to state affairs in Sicily ...

  6. Food and diet in ancient medicine - Wikipedia

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    Additional to the contributions by Archagathus of Sparta, many Greek doctors and scientists found themselves in Rome as prisoners of war. Aside from captivity, these Greek doctors and scientists also preferred practicing medicine in Rome due to the relatively better financial incentive that existed. [ 20 ]

  7. Archagathus (grandson of Agathocles of Syracuse) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. NASA Study on Air-Purifying Houseplants Debunked: Here's the ...

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    As Bryan E. Cummings and Michael S. Waring, the authors of the Drexel study, found, you would need 10–100 plants per square meter to clear the air in the way the NASA study reported.

  9. Dentistry in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    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.