A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Φαών), one of the most ancient of the Greek physicians, who must have lived in or before the fifth century B. C., as he was either a contemporary or predecessor of Hippocrates. He was one of the persons to whom some of the ancient critics attributed the treatise Περὶ Διαίτης ʽπριεινῆς, De Salubri Vic/ts Ratione, which forms part of the Hippocratic Collection. [HIPPOCRATES, p. 486a.] (Galen, Cozimment in Hippoer. "De Vict. Rat. in Morb. Acut." 1.17, vol. xv. p. 455.)

[W. A. G.]