Archagathus

• Archagathus was the first Greek Doctor in 210 BCE to develop a reputation as a skilled surgeon in Rome.
• Although his freputation was short lived and he acquired the nickname ‘carnifex’ meaning ‘butcher’, he paved the way for other Greek Doctors to help establish Roman Medicine.

Roman Doctors

• Asclepiades (124-40 BCE)
  • Asclepiades was more successful: He arrived in Rome in the 1st century BCE. He opposed Hippocrates in saying Doctors, not Nature, had the power to heal.
• Dioscorides: (64 CE)
  • He was an army Physician during the reign of Nero.
  • De Materia Medica – ‘Regarding Medical Materials’: Published in 64 CE, this Encyclopedia in 5 volumes. It contained Herbal remedies based on 600 Plants.
• Galen (129-210 CE):
  • Considered to be the Father of Roman Medicine.