For other uses, see Asclepiad It is uncertain as to who an Asclepiad was. Some theories hold that they were priests of an Asclepion in ancient Greece.[1] The Asclepiadae could also have been a guild in honour of Asclepius, the Greek god of healing, separate from the healing temples and closely related to Hippocratic tradition. It may also be a group of people who claimed to be descended from Asclepius.[2]. Asclepiades was the name of several physicians, some of whom probably assumed this appellation either as a sort of honorary title in allusion to the ancient family of the Asclepiadae, or in order to signify that they themselves belonged to it.
See also
- Asclepiades
- Hippocrates, who was raised as an Asclepiad.
References
- ^ Rutkow 1993, p. 21
- ^ Jones 1868, p. 39
Bibliography
- Jones, W. H. S. (1868), Hippocrates Collected Works I, Cambridge Harvard University Press, <http://daedalus.umkc.edu/hippocrates/HippocratesLoeb1/page.ix.php>.
- Rutkow, Ira M. (1993), written at London and Southampton, Surgery: An Illustrated History, Elsevier Science Health Science div, ISBN 0-801-6-6078-5
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