Aeschrion of Pergamum
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Aeschrion (Gr. Template:Polytonic) of Pergamum was a physician in the 2nd century AD.[1] He was one of Galen's tutors, who says that he belonged to the sect of the Empirici, and that he had a great knowledge of pharmacy and materia medica. Aeschrion was the inventor of a celebrated superstitious remedy for the bite of a mad dog, which is mentioned with approbation by Galen and Oribasius,[2] and of which the most important ingredient was powdered crawfish. These he directs to be caught at a time when the sun and moon were in a particular relative position, and to be baked alive.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Aeschrion (4)", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, p. 40
- ↑ Synops. iii. p. 55
- ↑ Galen, De Simpl. Medic. Facult. xi. 34, vol. xii. p. 356
- ↑ C. G. Kühn, Additam. ad Elencli. Med. Vet. a J. A. Fabric, in "Bill. Gr." exhibit