In the history of medicine, Philistion of Locri is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Philistion of Locri as 4th-century BC Greek physician and author.
Philistion of Locri was born at Epizephyrian Locris in -399. His recorded nationality is http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/1f89bcd63531f55aa6dcabbb39011450.
Medicine then rested on observation, humoral theory and inherited authority; anatomy was largely guessed at.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/1f89bcd63531f55aa6dcabbb39011450 matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Philistion of Locri died in -400, aged -1. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
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