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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 4 (of 6)

Note 2830 — BOOK XXII. THE PROPERTIES OF PLANTS AND FRUITS. (continued 2)

John Bostock translation

A physician who lived, probably, at the end of the second or the beginning of the first century B.C., as he was one of the tutors of Heraclides of Erythræ. His definition of the pulse has been preserved by Galen, De Differ. Puls. B. iv. c. 10, and an anecdote of him is mentioned by Sextus Empiricus.

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