(Ἐρυξίμαχος), a Greek physician, who lived in the fourth century B. C., and is introduced in the Convivium of Plato (p. 185) as telling Aristophanes how to cure the hiccup, and in the mean time making a speech himself on love or harmony (Ἐρως, which he illustrated from his own profession.
[W.A.G]A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890