Numisianus

Numisianus, ({{langx|el|Νουμισιανός}}; 2nd century) an eminent Greek physician at Corinth, whose lectures Galen attended c. 150, having gone to Corinth for that very reason.Galen, de Anat. Admin. i. 1, vol. ii. p. 217 He was, according to Galen, the most celebrated of all the pupils of Quintus, and one of the tutors to Pelops,Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. De Nat. Hom., ii. 6, vol. xv. p. 136 and distinguished himself especially by his anatomical knowledge. He wrote a commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates,Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. De Humor., i. 24, vol. xvi. p. 197; Comment. in Hippocr. Aphor., iv. 69, v. 44, vol. xvii. pt. ii. pp. 751, 837 which appears to have been well thought of in Galen's time.

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