Athenodoros (physician)
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Athenodoros (physician)
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Athenodoros was a physician of ancient Greece. He lived in the first century CE or the beginning of the second. He was probably a contemporary of the writer Plutarch, by whom the first book of his treatise, On Epidemic Diseases (Ἐπιδήμια), is quoted. In this work, Athenodoros proposes that diseases could and had come into existence within recent memory, and says that both elephantiasis and rabies originated in the time of the physician Asclepiades of Bithynia, which was a century before Athenodo
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Ancient Greek physician
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2024-09-09T00:34:18Z
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2024-09-09T00:57:03Z
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