Philoxenus (physician)

Philoxenus or Claudius Philoxenus ({{langx|el|Φιλόξενος}}), a Greco-Egyptian surgeon, who, according to Celsus,Celsus, De Medic. vii. Praef. p. 137 wrote several valuable volumes on surgery. He is no doubt the same person whose medical formulae are frequently quoted by Galen, and who is called by him Claudius Philoxenus.Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. ii. 17, iii. 9, vol. xiii. pp. 539, 645 As he is quoted by Asclepiades Pharmacion,ap. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. iv. 7, vol. xii. p. 731; De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. iii. 9, iv. 13, vol. xiii. pp. 545, 738 he must have lived in or before the 1st century. He is quoted also by Soranus,Soranus, De Arte Obstetr. p. 136 Paul of Aegina,Paul of Aegina, De Med. iii. 32, vii. 11, pp. 453, 658 Aëtius,Aëtius, ii. 3. 77, iv. 3. 7, iv. 4. 43, pp. 331, 744, 800 and Nicolaus Myrepsus,Nicolaus Myrepsus, De Compos. Medicam. i. 239, 240, p. 411 and also by Avicenna.Avicenna, Canon, v. 2. 2, vol. ii. p. 249