circa 70–95 AD) was a famous Roman physician and early adherent to the Methodic school of medicine.
[3] This, however, he soon gave up, and, though he had a poor general education, he embraced the medical profession, by which he acquired for a time a great reputation, and amassed a large fortune.
He appears to have exalted himself at the expense of his predecessors;[2] asserting that none of them had contributed to the advance of medical science,[3] and boasting that he himself could teach the art of healing in six months.
[7] His object was, in obstinate chronic cases, where other remedies failed, to attempt a thorough change in the fundamental constitution of the organism (syncrisis).
He began by the application, for three days, of strong vegetable remedies, both internally and externally, together with which, a strict regimen and emetics were applied.