Eudemus () was the name of several Greek physicians, whom it is difficult to distinguish with certainty: * A druggist, who apparently lived in the 4th or 3rd century BC. He is said by

Theophrastus Theophrastus (; ; c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek Philosophy, philosopher and Natural history, naturalist. A native of Eresos in Lesbos, he was Aristotle's close colleague and successor as head of the Lyceum (classical), Lyceum, the ...

, to have been eminent in his trade, and to have professed to be able to take

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without being purged. * A celebrated anatomist, who lived probably about the 3rd century BC, as

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 ...

calls him a contemporary of

Herophilus Herophilos (; ; 335–280 BC), sometimes Latinised Herophilus, was a Greek physician regarded as one of the earliest anatomists. Born in Chalcedon, he spent the majority of his life in Alexandria. He was the first scientist to systematically p ...

and

Erasistratus Erasistratus (; ; 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 they carried out anatomical research ...

. He appears to have given particular attention to the anatomy and physiology of the

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. He considered the

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and

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each to consist of five bones, on which point Galen differed from him, but modern anatomists agree with him. He, however, fell into the error of supposing the

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to be a distinct and separate bone. * A physician at

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, who was the paramour of

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, the wife of

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, the son of the emperor

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, and who joined her and

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in their plot for poisoning her husband, 23 AD. He was afterwards put to the

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. He is supposed to be the same person who is said by Caelius Aurelianus to have been one of the followers of Themison, and whose medical observations on hydrophobia and some other diseases are quoted by him. He appears to be the same physician who is mentioned by Galen among several others as belonging to the

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. * A contemporary and personal acquaintance of Galen, in the latter part of the 2nd century. The name is also mentioned several times by Galen,

Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (, or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; ) was an ancient Greek rhetorician and Grammarian (Greco-Roman), grammarian, flourishing about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century ...

,Athenaeus, ix. pp. 369, 371 and by other writers.

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