Moschion (physician)

For the author of the gynecological treatise Gynaecia, see Muscio.

Moschion, (Greek: Μοσχίων), is a physician quoted by Soranus,[1] Andromachus,[2] and Asclepiades Pharmacion,[3] who lived in or before the 1st century. He may be the same person who was called the "Corrector" (Greek: Διορθωτής), because though he was one of the followers of Asclepiades of Bithynia, he ventured to controvert his opinions on some points.[4]

A physician of the same name is mentioned also by Soranus,[5] Plutarch,[6] Alexander of Tralles,[7] Aëtius[8] Pliny,[9] and Tertullian.[10]

In Byzantine times, a Latin treatise on gynecology by an otherwise unknown Muscio was translated into Greek; this author came to be wrongly identified with Moschion.[11]

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  1. ^ ap. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc., i. 2, vol. xii.
  2. ^ ap. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc., vii. 2, vol. xiii.
  3. ^ ap. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., iii. 9, vol. xiii.
  4. ^ Galen, De Differ. Puls., iv. 16, vol. viii.
  5. ^ Soranus, De Arte Obstetr.
  6. ^ Plutarch, Sympos., iii. 10.2
  7. ^ Alexander of Tralles, i. 15
  8. ^ Aëtius, iv. 3.13
  9. ^ Pliny, H. N., xix. 26.4
  10. ^ Tertullian, De Anima, c. 15
  11. ^ Owsei Temkin, (1991), Soranus' Gynecology, page xlv. JHU Press
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