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Asclepiades of Bithynia
Asclepiades
also: Asclepiades, Asclepiadis
Influential Greek physician at late-Republican Rome (1st c. BC) who founded a school treating by diet, wine, and gentle regimen rather than drugs.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §15.95.9 Asclepiades
Asclepiades of Bithynia, an influential physician at late-Republican Rome who treated by diet and gentle regimen rather than drugs.