Public physician of Cos in c. 250 BC. As a resident of Cos without citizens' rights, he apprenticed with a public physician (archiatrós) in Halasarna, became his assistant and followed him to Cos when he was chosen public doctor there. There he opened his own practice but continued to treat his old patients from Halasarna, at times for nothing. The inscription documenting his career is one …
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Nutton, Vivian (London) and
Schneider, Helmuth (Kassel),
“Onasander”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
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