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Luke the Evangelist
one of the four evangelists
Pedanius Dioscorides
Pedanius Dioscorides (, ; 40–90 AD), "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of (in the original , , both meaning "On Medical Material"), a 5-volume Greek encyclopedic pharmacopeia on herbal medicine and related medicinal substances, that was widely read for more than 1,500 years. For almost two millennia Dioscorides was regarded as the most prominent writer on plants and plant drugs.
Soranus of Ephesus
1st/2nd century AD Greek physician
Rufus of Ephesus
late 1st and early 2nd century Greek physician
Archigenes
Archigenes (), an ancient Greco-Syrian physician, who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
Agathinus
Agathinus () was an eminent ancient Greek physician, the founder of a new medical sect, to which he gave the name of Episynthetici.
Gaius Stertinius Xenophon
Roman physician
Xenocrates of Aphrodisias
Greek physician of Aphrodisias in Cilicia, who must have lived about the middle of the 1st century
Demosthenes Philalethes
ancient physician
Athenaeus of Attalia
physician of the Pneumatist School who practiced at Rome in the 1st century AD
Asclepiades Pharmacion
ancient Greek physician
Heliodorus
ancient Greek physician (1st century AD)
Heraclas
thumb|right|Heraklas' sling XIII, the plinthios brokhos is produced in the same manner as a string figure. This example is formed in a doubled cord for better visibility. thumb|right|The diplous karkhesios brokhos or the modern bottle sling thumb|right|The epankylotos brokhos or the modern Tom fool's knot Heraklas () was a Greek physician of the 1st century AD whose descriptions of surgeons' knots and slings are preserved in book 48 of Oribasius' Medical Collections (Ἰατρικαὶ Συναγωγαί, Iatrikai Synagogai) under the title From Heraklas.
Andromachus the Elder and Andromachus the Younger
physicians (father and son)
Damocrates
Servilius Damocrates (or Democrates; ) was a Greek physician at Rome in the middle to late 1st century AD. He may have received the praenomen "Servillius" from his having become a client of the Servilia gens. Galen calls him ἄριστος ἰατρός, and Pliny says he was "e primis medentium," and relates his cure of Considia, the daughter of Marcus Servilius. He wrote quite a few pharmaceutical works in Greek iambic verse, of which there only remain the titles and some extracts preserved by Galen.
Anonymus Londinensis
Greek papyrus with medical content from the 1./2. century CE
Philo of Tarsus
ancient Greek physician
Athryilatus
Athryilatus (; 1st – 2nd century AD) was a Greek physician from Thasos, Macedonia. According to Plutarch's Symposiacs, he proposed two original theories: "Women endure cold better than men, they are not so sensible of the sharpness of the weather, and are contented with a few clothes" and wine ("an excellent refreshing remedy") induces cooling, sweating and sleep.