Mantias, (; 3rd century BC) a Greek physician who was the tutor of

Heraclides of Tarentum Heraclides of Tarentum (; fl. 3rd – 2nd century BC), was an Ancient Greek physician of the Empiric school who wrote commentaries on the works of Hippocrates. He came from Tarentum, was a pupil of Mantias, and probably lived in the 3rd or 2nd c ...

, and one of the followers 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 who lived therefore most probably in the

3rd century BC The 3rd century BC started the first day of 300 BC and ended the last day of 201 BC. It is considered part of the Classical antiquity, Classical Era, Epoch (reference date), epoch, or historical period. In the Mediterranean Basin, the first fe ...

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 ...

says that he was no ordinary physician, and that he was the first who wrote a regular work on

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. His works on the subject, which are several times quoted by Galen, are lost, but the titles of some of them have been preserved.Galen, ''De Simplic. Medicam. Temper. ac Facult.'', vi. praef. vol. xi. p. 795; ''Comment in Hippocr. De Offic. Med.'' praef. and i. 5, vol. xviii. pt. ii. pp. 629, 666; ''De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen.'', iv. 14, vol. xiii. p. 751

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