Menodotus of Nicomedia

Menodotos of Nicomedia (* probably around 100) was a Greek physician and philosopher.

Menodotos, who worked especially around the year 125, was in the Empirikerschule in high esteem and had a particularly strong on Galen. This also includes all information about Menodotos that are still present today, has been handed down. Menodotos was also a teacher of Herodotus.

Menodotos authored several books from a larger scale. One that was dedicated to a Severus, was commented later by Galen. He was an opponent of the methodologists, especially of Asclepiades. He was an opponent routine medical and thought a doctor should strive for fame and profit. The analogy was only the key to the possible, not to the real in his eyes. Simple experiences should be supplemented by further experience. That was his opinion, in addition to memory and sensory perception, the third part of medicine. The bleeding should be according to Menodotos applied only in cases of plethora.