Greek physician, born at Agrigentum in Sicily, a contemporary with Empedocles, and must therefore have lived in the 5th century before Christ. The successful measure of lighting large fires, and purifying the air with perfumes, to put a stop to the plague in Athens (430 B.C.), is said to have originated with him; but this has been questioned on chronological grounds. Suïdas gives the titles of several medical works written by him in the Doric dialect.
