Moschion, (), is a physician quoted by Soranus, Andromachus, and

Asclepiades Pharmacion Asclepiades Pharmacion or Asclepiades Junior (; fl. 1st–2nd century) was a Greek physician. He is believed to have lived at the end of the 1st or the beginning of the 2nd century AD, as he quotes Andromachus, Dioscorides, and Scribonius Larg ...

, who lived in or before the 1st century. He may be the same person who was called the "Corrector" (), because though he was one of the followers 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 ...

, he ventured to controvert his opinions on some points. A physician of the same name is mentioned also by Soranus,

Plutarch Plutarch (; , ''Ploútarchos'', ; – 120s) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo (Delphi), Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ''Parallel Lives'', ...

Alexander of Tralles Alexander of Tralles (; ca. 525 – ca. 605) was one of the most eminent physicians in the Byzantine Empire. His birth date may safely be put in the 6th century AD, for he mentions Aëtius Amidenus, who probably did not write until the end of the ...

, Aëtius Pliny, and

Tertullian Tertullian (; ; 155 – 220 AD) was a prolific Early Christianity, early Christian author from Roman Carthage, Carthage in the Africa (Roman province), Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive co ...

. In

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times, a Latin treatise on

gynecology Gynaecology or gynecology (see American and British English spelling differences) is the area of medicine concerned with conditions affecting the Female reproductive system, female reproductive system. It is often paired with the field of obste ...

by an otherwise unknown

Muscio Muscio (also Mustio) is the supposed author of the ''Genecia'' (''Gynaecia''), a treatise of gynecology dating to ca. AD 500, preserved in a manuscript of ca. AD 900. The treatise borrows heavily from Soranus. Nothing is known about the life of M ...

was translated into Greek; this author came to be wrongly identified with Moschion.Owsei Temkin, (1991), ''Soranus' Gynecology'', page xlv. JHU Press

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moschion 1st-century Greek physicians