Antaeus () 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 23/24 79), known in English as Pliny the Elder ( ), was a Roman Empire, Roman author, Natural history, naturalist, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the Roman emperor, emperor Vesp ...

, 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 (; September 129 – AD), often Anglicization, anglicized as Galen () or Galen of Pergamon, was a Ancient Rome, Roman and Greeks, Greek physician, surgeon, and Philosophy, philosopher. Considered to be one o ...

, '' 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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