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DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20335421
Philo of Tarsus the Physician
Φίλων ὁ Ταρσεύς

Philo of Tarsus and the Medicinal Formulary

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Philo of Tarsus, from Tarsus in Cilicia, belongs to the Hellenistic or early Imperial centuries, likely the 1st century BCE or the 1st century CE. Later medical writers mention him; life and education are otherwise unknown.

What this site holds is the Medicinal Formulary, a short recipe book surviving as excerpts in Aëtius of Amida. Galen and Scribonius Largus also cite him. Scribonius wrote Latin.

The independent book is lost. A fragment here is a passage in a later compiler.

Also published as PDF.