Ae'gimusor AEGI'MIUS (Αἴγιμος, or Αἰγίμιος), one of the most ancient of the Greek physicians, who is said by
Galen (De Differ. Puls. 1.2, 4.2. 11. vol. viii. pp. 498, 716, 752) to
have been the first person who wrote a treatise on the pulse. He was a native of Velia in
Lucania, and is supposed to have lived before the time of Hippocrates, that is, in the fifth
century before Christ. His work was entitled
Περὶ Παλμῶν,
De Palpitationibus, (a name which alone sufficiently indicates its
antiquity,) and is not now in existence. Callimachus (apud
Athen. xiv. p.
643e.) mentions an author named Aegimius, who wrote a work on the art of making cheesecakes
(
πλακουντοπουκὸν σύγγραμμα, and Pliny mentions a person
of the same name (
H. N. 7.49), who was said to have lived two hundred
years; but whether these are the same or different individuals is quite uncertain
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