Serum pion of Alexandria was an antique Greek physician. It lived end 3. to beginning 2. Century v. Chr.

He was successor of the Philinos of Kos, an advocate and trailer of the empirical physician school, whereby he is considered to some as their actual founder. Serum pion set up strict rules for medically scientific experiments. Galenus and the later Empiriker have him very estimated.

Serum pion dedicated itself the following, today doubtful, working methods:

• Epileptikern are to brush-in themselves the neck with vinegar and the body with rose oil
• Cure against epilepsy

Hare heart

Turtle blood

Wild pig testicle

• Clysters with insanity and Tetanus

It is reported that serum pion needed so frequently Exkremente of crocodiles for its treatments that cheats of it manufactured falsifications. The Unfruchtbarkeit with women it attributed incorrect temperature of the to one "„"“

Literature

• Hans's George von Manz: Serum pion of Alexandria, in: Werner E. Gerabek among other things (Hgg.), encyclopedia medicine history, Berlin 2004, P. 1321.

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