Chrysippus of Cnidos

{{Short description|Greek physician}}

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Chrysippus of Cnidos ({{langx|grc|Χρύσιππος ὁ Κνίδιος}}, 4th century BC) was a Greek physician. He was the son of Erineus,Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 89 and a contemporary of Praxagoras,Celsus, De Medicina praef. lib. i. p. 5; Pliny, Natural History xxvi. 6 a pupil of Eudoxus of Cnidos and Philistion of Locri, father of Chrysippus the physician to Ptolemy Soter,Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 186 and tutor to Erasistratus,Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 186; Pliny, Natural History xxix. 3; Galen, De Ven. Sect. adv. Erasistr. c. 7, vol. xi. p. 171 Aristogenes,Galen, De Ven. sect. adv. Erasistr. Rom. Deg. c. 2, et De Cur. Rat. per Ven. Sect. c. 2, vol. xi. pp. 197, 252 Medius, and Metrodorus.Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians i. 1 He accompanied his tutor Eudoxus into Egypt,Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 87 but nothing more is known of the events of his life. He wrote several works, which are not now extant, and Galen says,Galen, De Ven. Sect. adv. Erasistr. Rom. Deg. c. 5, vol. xi. p. 221 that even in his time they were in danger of being lost. Several of his medical opinions are, however, preserved by Galen, by whom he is frequently quoted and referred to.Galen, De Ven. Sect. adv. Erasistr., etc., vol. xi. pp. 149, etc., 171, ettc., 197, 221, etc.