Artemon (physician)
Artemon (
Roman naturalist and author Pliny the Elder to have made use of cruel, unusual, superstitious remedies, that Pliny himself thought of more as "abominations" instead of actual cures.[1]
For epilepsy, Artemon has prescribed water drawn from a spring in the night, and drunk from the skull of a man who has been slain, and whose body remains unburnt.[2]
He must have lived some time in or before the first century CE.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Artemon". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 378.
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