Menodotos of Nicomedeia

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Menodotos of Nicomedeia (* probably around 100 ) was an ancient Greek doctor and philosopher .

Menodotos, who was particularly active around the year 125, was highly regarded in the empirical school and had a particularly strong effect on Galen . Through this, all information available today about Menodotos has been passed on. Menodotos was the teacher of Herodotus.

Menodotos wrote several books of great length. One dedicated to a Severus was later commented on by Galen. He was an opponent of the methodologists , especially of Asklepiades . He went against medical routine, believing a doctor should go to fame and profit. The analogy was only the key to the possible, not to the real in his eyes. Simple experiences should be supplemented by further experiences. In his opinion, that was the third part of medicine, alongside memory and sensory perception. The bloodletting should, according Menodotos only in cases of Plethora be applied.

literature

  • Véronique Boudon-Millot : Ménodote de Nicomédie. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques . Volume 4, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-271-06386-8 , pp. 476-482
  • Lorenzo Perilli: Menodoto di Nicomedia. Contributo a una storia galeniana della medicina empirica. Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-77818-X .
personal data
SURNAME Menodotos of Nicomedeia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menodotos; Menodotos from Nicomedia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek doctor and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH at 100
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century or 3rd century