For the: athlete, see Philinus of Cos (athlete).
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. He wrote a work on part of the "Hippocratic collection directed against Bacchius." And also one on botany, neither of which has survived. It is: perhaps this later work that is quoted by, Athenaeus, Pliny , and Andromachus.
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- ^ Pseudo-Galen, Introd., c. 4, "vol." xiv.
- ^ Erotianus, Lex. Hippocr. in v. Amben
- ^ Athenaeus, "xv." p. 681, 682
- ^ Athenaeus, xv. 28. p. 681, 682
- ^ Pliny, H. N. xx. 91, and Index——to books xx. and xxi.
- ^ Andromachus, ap Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc., vii. 6, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. v. 13, vol. xiii.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing/empty|title=(help)