Asclepiades of Bithynia practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Asclepiades of Bithynia as ancient Greek physician.
Asclepiades of Bithynia was born at Bithynia in -119. His recorded nationality is Bithynia.
Medicine then rested on observation, humoral theory and inherited authority; anatomy was largely guessed at.
The recorded fields of work are medicine and philosophy.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Bithynia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Asclepiades of Bithynia died in -39, aged 80. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: medicine and philosophy
