Heraclides of Erythrae

Heraclides of Erythrae (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης; fl. 1st century BC), a physician of Erythrae in Ionia, who was a pupil of Chrysermus,^[1] a fellow-pupil of Apollonius, and a contemporary of Strabo in the 1st century BC.^[2] Galen calls him the most distinguished of the pupils of Chrysermus,^[1] and mentions a work written by him, On the school of Herophilus (Greek: Περὶ τῆς Ἡροφίλου Αἱρέσεως), consisting of at least seven books. He wrote a commentary on the sixth book of Hippocrates, De Morbis Vulgaribus,^[3] but neither this nor any of his writings survive.

Notes

^ ^a ^b Galen, De Differ. Puls., iv. 10, vol. viii.
^ Strabo, xiv.
^ Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. Epid. VI., i. praef. vol. xvii. pt. i

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[galen1-1] Galen, De Differ. Puls., iv. 10, vol. viii.

[2] Strabo, xiv.

[3] Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. Epid. VI., i. praef. vol. xvii. pt. i

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