Editing List of ancient physicians (section)

== 1st century to 4th century CE ==
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| [[Abascantus]] || 2nd century CE || Greek || invented antidote against serpent bites
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|[[Saint Fabiola|Fabiola]]
|4th century CE
|Roman
|First hospital in Latin Christendom was founded by [[Saint Fabiola|Fabiola]] at Rome.<ref name="Durant19932" />
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|[[Ephrem the Syrian]]
|4th century CE
|Roman
|Opened a [[hospital]] at [[Edessa]]<ref name="Durant19932">{{cite book |last=Durant |first=Will |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mk8BAAAACAAJ |title=The Age of Faith: A History of Medieval Civilization-Christian, Islamic, and Judaic-From Constantine to Dante : A.D. 325–1300 |date=March 1993 |publisher=Fine Communications |isbn=9781567310153 |accessdate=19 October 2012}}</ref> They spread out and specialized nosocomia for the sick, brephotrophia for foundlings, orphanotrophia for orphans, ptochia for the poor, xenodochia for poor or infirm pilgrims, and gerontochia for the old
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|[[Basil of Caesarea]]
|4th century CE
|Roman 
|Founded at [[Caesarea Maritima|Caesarea]] in [[Cappadocia]] an institution (hospital) called [[Basileias]], with several buildings for patients, nurses, physicians, workshops, and schools.<ref name="Durant19932" />
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| [[Aemilia Hilaria]] || 4th century CE || Roman || female physician. Wrote books on gynecology and obstetrics.
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| [[Aeschrion of Pergamon]] || 2nd century CE || Greek || pharmaceutist
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| [[Agathinus]] || 1st century CE || Greek || founder of the [[Eclectic school]] of medicine
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| [[Albucius]] || 1st century CE || Roman || wealthy physician, with annual income of 250,000 sesterces
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| [[Alcon (classical history)]] || 1st century CE  || Greek || surgeon
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| [[Andromachus (physician)|Andromachus]] || 1st century CE || Greek ||
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| [[Anonymus Londinensis]] || 1st century CE || Greek || author of the physiological work ''On Medicine'' 
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| [[Antipater (2nd-century physician)|Antipater]] || 2nd century CE || Greek || gave an account of the morbid symptoms that precede death
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| [[Antiphanes of Delos]] || 2nd century CE || Greek || "the sole cause of diseases in man was the too great variety of his food"
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| [[Antonius Castor]] || 1st century CE  || Roman || herbal remedies
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| [[Antyllus]] || 2nd century CE || Greek || surgeon, treatment of aneurysms became standard until the 19th century
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Claudius]] || 2nd century CE || Greek ||
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Cyprius]] || 1st century CE || Greek ||
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Organicus]] || 2nd century CE || Greek ||
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Pergamenus]] || 3rd century CE || Greek ||
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Pitaneus]] || 1st century CE || Greek ||
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Senior]] || 1st century CE || Greek ||
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Tarensis]] || 1st century CE || Greek ||
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| [[List of physicians named Apollonius|Apollonius Ther]] || 1st century CE || Greek ||
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|[[Charaka Samhita|Dridhabala]]
|2nd century CE 
|India 
|edited the Charaka Samhita
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| [[Archigenes]] || 1st–2nd century CE || Greek || very high reputation for his professional skill
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| [[Arcyon]] || 1st century CE || Greek || surgeon
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| [[Aretaeus]] || 1st century CE || Greek || general treatise on diseases
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| [[Asclepiades Pharmacion]] || 1st–2nd century CE || Greek || skill and knowledge of pharmacy
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| [[Aspasia the Physician]] || 4th century CE || Greek || Female gynecologist
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| [[Athenaeus of Attalia]] || 1st century CE  || Greek || founder of the [[Pneumatic school]] of medicine
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| [[Cassius Felix]] || 3rd century CE || Roman African || medical writer
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| [[Aulus Cornelius Celsus]] || 1st century CE || Roman || ''[[De Medicina]]''
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| [[Charmis of Marseilles|Charmis]] || 1st–2nd century CE || Greek || Physician active in Rome
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| [[Saints Cosmas and Damian]] || 3rd century CE || Arab || persecuted by Diocletian
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| [[Crinas]] || 1st–2nd century CE || Greek || Physician active in Rome
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| [[Criton of Heraclea]] || 1st–2nd century CE || Greek || Chief physician of emperor Trajan
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| [[Damocrates]] || 1st century CE || Greek || wrote pharmaceutical works in Greek iambic verse
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| [[Demosthenes Philalethes]] || 1st century CE || Greek || author of the ''Ophthalmicus'', the most influential work of ophthalmology in antiquity
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| [[Saint Diomedes]] || 3rd century CE || Greek || arrested by Diocletian
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| [[Pedanius Dioscorides]] || 1st century CE || Greek || ''[[De Materia Medica]]''
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| [[Dong Feng (physician)|Dong Feng]] || 3rd century CE || Chinese ||
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| [[Erotianus]] || 1st century CE || Greek || ''Collection of Hippocratic Words''
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| [[Eudemus (physician)]] || 1st–2nd century CE || Greek || two persons, the first the poisoner of [[Drusus Julius Caesar]], the second an acquaintance of Galen
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| [[Saint Fabiola]] || 4th century CE || Roman || nurse
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| [[Gaius Stertinius Xenophon]] || 1st century CE || Greek || personal physician of emperor [[Claudius]]
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| [[Galen]] || 2nd–3rd century CE || Greek || developer of [[anatomy]], [[physiology]], [[pathology]], [[pharmacology]], and [[neurology]]
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| [[Ge Hong]] || 4th century CE || Chinese || originator of First Aid in TCM
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| [[Heliodorus (surgeon)|Heliodorus]] || 1st century CE || Greek || wrote on medical technique
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| [[Herodotus (physician)]] || 1st–2nd century CE || Greek || Two doctors, the first a Pneumaticist, the second an Empiricist
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| [[Hua Tuo]] || 2nd century CE || Chinese || abilities in acupuncture, moxibustion, herbal medicine and medical [[Daoyin]] exercises
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| [[Huangfu Mi]] || 3rd century CE || Chinese ||  compiled the ''Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion''
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| [[Ji Ben]] || 3rd century CE || Chinese || physician who started a failed rebellion
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| [[Leonidas (physician)]] || 2nd–3rd century CE || Greek || surgical writer, provided the first detailed description of a mastectomy
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| [[Leoparda]] || 4th century CE || Greek || female gynecologist
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| [[Marcellus of Side]] || 2nd century CE || Greek || wrote a long medical poem
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| [[Quintus Gargilius Martialis]] || 3rd century CE || Roman || writer on horticulture, botany and medicine
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| [[Menemachus]] || 2nd century CE || Greek || [[Methodic school]] of medicine
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| [[Menodotus of Nicomedia]] || 2nd century CE || Greek || Empiricist
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| [[Metrodora]] || 4th century CE || Greek || female gynecologist, author of ''On the Diseases and Cures of Women''.
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| [[Oribasius]] || 4th century CE || Greek || medical writer and person physician of [[Julian the Apostate]]
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| Paccius Antiochus || 1st century CE || Roman || wealthy commercial physician
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| [[Philagrius of Epirus]] || 3rd century CE || Greek || medical writers
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| [[Philonides (physician)]] || 1st century CE || Greek || author of ''De Medicina''
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| [[Philumenus]] || 3rd century CE || Greek ||
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| [[Aelius Promotus]] || 2nd century CE || Greek || author of ''Medicinalium Formularum Collectio''
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| [[Rufus of Ephesus]] || 1st–2nd century CE || Greek ||  wrote treatises on dietetics, pathology, anatomy, and patient care
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| [[Serenus Sammonicus]] || 3rd century CE || Roman || author of a didactic medical poem ''Liber Medicinalis''
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| [[Scribonius Largus]] || 1st century CE || Roman || court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius
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| [[Sextius Niger]] || 1st century CE || Roman || author of the pharmacologist work ''On material''
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| [[Sextus Empiricus]] || 2nd century CE || Roman ||
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| [[Sextus Placitus]] || 4th century CE || Roman || author of ''Libri medicinae Sexti Placiti Papyriensis ex animalibus pecoribus et bestiis vel avibus Concordantiae''
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| [[Soranus of Ephesus]] || 2nd century CE || Greek || author of treatise on [[gynecology]] and ''On Acute and Chronic Diseases''
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| [[Theodorus Priscianus]] || 4th century CE || Roman || author of ''Medical Matters in Four Books''
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|[[Vagbhata]]
|4th century CE 
|Indian
|He is considered to be "The Trinity" of [[Ayurveda|Ayurvedic]] knowledge
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| [[Thessalus of Tralles]] || 1st century CE || Roman || [[Methodic school]] of medicine, court physician of [[Emperor Nero]]
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| [[Xenocrates of Aphrodisias]] || 1st century CE || Greek || pharmaceutical writer, including ''On Useful Things from Living Beings''
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| [[Zhang Zhongjing]] || 2nd-3rd century CE || Chinese || made great contributions to the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine
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| [[Zopyrus (physician)]] || 1st century CE || Greek || antidote inventor
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