Aegimus

For the mythological ancestor of the Dorians, see Aegimius.

Aegimus or Aegimius (Gr. Template:Polytonic or Template:Polytonic) was one of the most ancient of the Greek physicians, who is said by Galen to have been the first person who wrote a treatise on the pulse.[1] He was a native of Velia in Lucania, and is supposed to have lived before the time of Hippocrates, that is, in the fifth century BC. His work was entitled Template:Polytonic (Lat. De Palpitationibus, a name which alone sufficiently indicates its antiquity), which is no longer extant. Callimachus mentions an author named "Aegimius", who wrote a work on the art of making cheesecakes (Template:Polytonic),[2] and Pliny the Elder mentions a person of the same name who was said to have lived two hundred years;[3] but whether these are the same or different individuals is quite uncertain.[4]

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1. ↑ Galen, De Differ. Puls. i. 2, iv. 2. 11. vol. viii. pp. 498, 716, 752
2. ↑ Callimachus, ap. Athen, xiv. p. 643, e
3. ↑ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia vii. 49
4. ↑ Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), "Aegimus", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, p. 26