Dieuches

Dieuches, (Greek: Διεύχης), a Greek physician, who lived probably in the 4th century BC, and belonged to the Dogmatic school of medicine.^[1] He was tutor to Numenius of Heraclea,^[2] and is several times quoted by Pliny.^[3] He wrote some medical works, of which nothing but a few fragments remain.

Notes

1. Galen, De Ven. Sect. adv. Erasistr., c. 5, vol. xi.; comp. Id. de Simplic. Medicam. Temper. ac Facult., vi. prooem. vol. xi, De Meth. Med., i. 3, vii. 3, vol. x., Comment in Hippocr. de Nat Hom., ii. 6, vol. xv.
2. Athenaeus, i. p. 5
3. Pliny, H. N., xx. 15, 33, 73, xxiii. 29, xxiv. 92

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