(), the name of several physicians, some of
whom probably assumed this appellation either as a sort of honorary title in allusion to the
ancient family of the Asciepiadae, or in order to signify that they themselves belonged to it.
A list of the physicians who bore this name is given by Le Clerc, Hist de la
Méd.; Fabricius, Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii. p. 87, &c. ed.
vet.; C. G. Gumpert, Asclepiadis Bithyni Fragmenta, Vinar. 1794, 8vo., p.
3, &c.; C. F. Harless, De Medicis Veteribus "Asclepiades"
Dictis,Bonn. 1828, 4to.