Menodotos of Nikomedeia (* probably around 100) was a Greek physician and philosopher.

Menodotos, which particularly worked around 125, stood in the Empirikerschule in high reputation and affected in particular strongly Galen. Also all information about Menodotos, which are still present today, was delivered by this. Menodotos was also a teacher of the Herodotos.

Menodotos wrote several books of larger extent. One, which was dedicated to a Severus, was commentated later by Galen. He was an opponent of the Methodiker, particularly from Asklepiades. He was opponent of a medical routine and was the opinion, a physician is fame and profit to aim at. The analogy was in its eyes only the key to the possible one, not to the real one. Simple experiences should be supplemented by resuming experiences. That was its opinion after apart from memory and sensory perception the third part of the medicine. The bleeding should be used according to Menodotos only with cases by Plethora.

Literature

• A. Favier: Un grec you IIe ap. J. - C, 1906.
• Lorenzo Perilli: Menodoto di Nicomedia. Contributo A una storia galeniana della medicina empirica, Rome/Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-77818-X.

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