Philinus of Cos (Greek: Φιλῖνος ὁ Κῷος; 3rd century BC) was a Greek physician.
He was the reputed founder of the Empiric school.
He was a pupil of Herophilus, a contemporary of Bacchius, and a predecessor of Serapion.
[1] He wrote a work on part of the Hippocratic collection directed against Bacchius,[2] and also one on botany,[3] neither of which has survived.
It is perhaps this later work that is quoted by Athenaeus,[4] Pliny ,[5] and Andromachus.