Menodotus of

Nicomedia Nicomedia (; , ''Nikomedeia''; modern İzmit) was an ancient Greece, ancient Greek city located in what is now Turkey. In 286, Nicomedia became the eastern and most senior capital city of the Roman Empire (chosen by the emperor Diocletian who rul ...

(; 2nd century CE), in

Bithynia Bithynia (; ) was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), adjoining the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, and the Black Sea. It bordered Mysia to the southwest, Paphlagonia to the northeast a ...

, was a

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

; a pupil of Antiochus of Laodicea; and tutor to Herodotus of Tarsus. He belonged to the

Empiric school The Empiric school of medicine (''Empirics'', ''Empiricists'', or ''Empirici'', ) was a school of medicine founded in Alexandria the middle of the third century BC.Heinrich von Staden, ''Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, ...

, and lived probably about the beginning of the 2nd century CE. He refuted some of the opinions of

Asclepiades of Bithynia Asclepiades (; c. 129/124 BC – 40 BC), sometimes called Asclepiades of Bithynia or Asclepiades of Prusa, was a Greek physician born at Prusias-on-Sea in Bithynia in Anatolia and who flourished at Rome, where he practised and taught Greek medi ...

, and was exceedingly severe against the

Dogmatic school The Dogmatic school of medicine (''Dogmatics'', or ''Dogmatici'', ) was a school of medicine in ancient Greece and Rome. They were the oldest of the medical sects of antiquity. They derived their name from '' dogma'', a philosophical tenet or opin ...

. He enjoyed a considerable reputation in his day, and is several times quoted and mentioned 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 ...

.Galen, ''De Cur. Rat. per Ven. Sect.'' c. 9; ''Comment, in Hippocr. "De Artic"'' iii. 62; ''Comment, in Hippocr. "De Rat. Vict. in Morb. Acut."'' iv. 17; ''De Libr. Propr.'' c. 9; ''De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos'', vi. i. He appears to have written some works which are quoted by

Diogenes Laërtius Diogenes Laërtius ( ; , ; ) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Little is definitively known about his life, but his surviving book ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a principal source for the history of ancient Greek ph ...

, but are not now extant.

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References

* Lorenzo Perilli
Menodoto di Nicomedia. Contributo a una storia galeniana della medicina empirica
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