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APAMIA (Ancient city) SYRIA
Archigenes, 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. 236, xiii. 98, xiv. 252). He was the most
celebrated of the sect of the Eclectici (Dict. of Ant. s.v. Eclectici), and was
a native of Apamea in Syria; he practised at Rome in the time of Trajan, A. D.
98-117, where he enjoyed a very high reputation for his professional skill. He
is, however, reprobated as having been fond of introducing new and obscure terms
into the science, and having attempted to give to medical writings a dialectic
form, which produced rather the appeardance than the reality of accuracy. Archigenes
published a treatise on the pulse, on which Galen wrote a Commentary; it appears
to have contained a number of minute and subtile distinctions, many of which have
no real existence, and sere for the most part the result rather of a preconceived
hypothesis than of actual observation; and the same remark may be applied to an
arrangement which he proposed of fevers. He, however, not only enjoved a considerable
degree of the public confidence during his life-time, but left behind him a number
of diseiplis, who for many years maintained a resepetable rank in their profession.
The name of the father of Archigenes was Philippus; he was a pupil of Agathinus,
whose life he once saved; and he died at the age either of sixty-three or eighty-three
(Suid. s. v. Archig.). The titles of several of his works are preserved, of which,
however, nothing but a few fragments remain; some of these have been preserved
by other ancient authors, and some are still in MS. in the King's Library at Paris.
By some writers he is considered to have belonged to the sect of the Pneumatici.
This extract is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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Iamblichus, a later Neo-Platonic philosopher of Apameia, who was a contemporary of the emperor
Julian and Libanius. He has often been confounded with Iamblichus of Chalcis,
but the time at which he lived, and his intimacy with Julian, clearly show that
he belongs to a later date. The emperor, where he speaks of him, bestows extravagant
praise upon him (Libanius, Epist.)
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