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Philoxenus logo #21000 Philoxenus or Philoxenos (Greek, `lover of foreigners`) is the name of several prominent ancient Greeks: ...
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Philoxenus

Philoxenus logo #21000[physician] Philoxenus (Φιλόξενος), a Greco-Egyptian surgeon, who, according to Celsus, wrote several valuable volumes on surgery. He is no doubt the same person whose medical formulae are frequently quoted by Galen, and who is called by him Claudius Philoxenus. As he is quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion, he must have lived in or be...
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