Agathinus (Αγαθινος) was an eminent an­cient Greek physician, the founder of a new medical sect, to which he gave the name of Episynthetici. The Doctor by Luke Fildes This article is about the term physician, one type of doctor; for other uses of the word doctor see Doctor. ...

He was born at Sparta and must have lived in the first century after Christ, as he was the pupil of Athenaeus, and the tutor of Archigenes. (Galen, Definit. Med. c. 14. vol. xix. p. 353; Suidas, s. v. 'Αρχιγενης; Eudoc. Violar. ap. Villoison, Anecd. Gr. vol. i. p. 65.) He is said to have been once seized with an attack of delirium, brought on by want of sleep, from which he was delivered by his pupil Archigenes, who ordered his head to be fomented with a great quantity of warm oil. (Aëtius, tetr. i. serm. iii. 172, p. 156.) Sparta (Doric: Spártā, Attic: SpártÄ“) is a city in southern Greece. ... Athenaeus (ca. ... Archigenes (Αρχιγενης), an eminent an­cient Greek physician, whose name is probably more familiar to most non-professional readers than that of many others of more real importance, from his being mentioned by Juvenal, (vi. ... Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Galinos; Latin: Claudius Galenus; AD 129 –c. ... Suda (Σουδα or alternatively Suidas) is the name of a massive medieval lexicon, not an author as was formerly supposed. ... Jean-Baptiste Gaspard dAnsse (or Dannse) de Villoison (March 5, 1750 (or 1753) – April 25, 1805) was a classical scholar born at Corbeil-sur-Seine, France. ... Aëtius Amidenus or Aëtius of Amida (Αέτιος Αμιδηνός) was the court physician of Justinian I. His Βιβλία Ιατρικά (#REDIRECT Libri medicinales) document the medical knowledge of the Late Antique period. ...

He is frequently quoted by Galen, who mentions him among the Pneumatici. (De Dignosc. Puls. i. 3? vol. viii. p. 787.) None of his writings are now extant, but a few fragments are contained in Matthaei's Collection, entitled XXI Veterum el Clarorum Medicorum Graecorum Varia Opuscula, Mosquae, 1808, 4to. See also Palladius, Com­ment. in Hippocr. "De Morb. Popul. lib. vi." ap. Dietz, Scholia in Hippocr. et Galen, vol. ii. p. 56. Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, usually called just Palladius, was a Roman writer of the 4th century AD. Palladius is best known for his book on agriculture Opus agriculturae (sometimes known as De Re Rustica). ...

The particular opinions of his sect are not exactly known, but they were probably nearly the same as those of the Eclectici. (See JC Osterhausen, Histor. Sectae Pneumatic. Med. Altorf. 1791, 8vo.; CG Kühn, Additam. ad Elench. Medic. Vet. a JA Fabricio in "Bibliotli. Graeoa" exhibit.)

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Further Reading

• Kudlien, Fridolf. (1970). "Agathinus, Claudius". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.74-75