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Akron, Acron
Of Akragas; physician, son of Xenon; he taught at Athens contemporaneously with Empedocles; so he is older than Hippocrates. He wrote On Medicine in the Doric dialect, and On Nutrition of the Healthy in one book. This…
Ἄκρων· Ἀκραγαντῖνος, ἰατρὸς, υἱὸς Ξένωνος, ἐσοφίστευσεν ἐν ταῖς Ἀθήναις ἅμα Ἐμπεδοκλεῖ· ἔστιν οὖν πρεσβύτερος Ἱπποκράτους. ἔγραψε Περὶ ἰατρικῆς Δωρίδι διαλέκτῳ, Περὶ τροφῆς…