Meges of Sidon

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Meges (Greek: Μέγης; 1st century BC) was an eminent surgeon born at Sidon in Phoenicia,[1] who practised at Rome with great reputation and success, shortly before the time of Celsus, and therefore probably in the 1st century BC.[2] He wrote some works which are highly praised and several times quoted by Celsus, but of which nothing remains. He is, perhaps, the same person who is quoted by Pliny,[3] Galen,[4] and Scribonius Largus.[5] A Greek fragment by Meges is preserved by Oribasius.[6]

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  1. ^ Galen, De Meth. Med. vi. 6, vol. x. p. 454
  2. ^ Celsus, De Medic. vii. praef.
  3. ^ Pliny, H. N. xxxii. 24
  4. ^ Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, iii. 3, v. 3, vol. xii. pp. 684, 845
  5. ^ Scribonius Largus, De Compos. Medicam. c. 70. §202, p. 227
  6. ^ Oribasius, Coll. Medic. xliv. 14

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