Antaeus (physician)
Antaeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀνταῖος) or Anthaeus (Ἀνθαῖος) was a physician of ancient Greece, whose outlandish remedy for rabies is mentioned by Pliny the Elder,[1] and consisted of deriving a potion from the skull of a hanged man.[2][3] One of his prescriptions is preserved by Galen.[4] Nothing is known of the events of his life, but, as Pliny mentions him, he must have lived some time in or before the first century CE.
Notes
- Pliny the Elder, Natural History xxviii. 2
- Barrett, Alan D.T.; Stanberry, Lawrence R. (2009). Vaccines for Biodefense and Emerging and Neglected Diseases. Academic Press. p. 612. ISBN 9780080919027. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- King, Arthur A. (2004). Historical perspective of rabies in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. World Organisation for Animal Health. p. 4. ISBN 9789290446392. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- Galen, De Compositione Medicamentorum Secundum Locus iv. 8. vol. xii. p. 764
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