Abascantus

Abascantus was a physician of Lugdunum ( Lyon today ), who lived AD in the 1st or 2nd century and is mentioned several times by the Greek physician Galen. Karl Gottlob Kühn, who edited the works of Galen 1821-1833, identified Abascantus with the same name, mentioned in five Latin inscriptions freedmen of the Emperor Augustus. The classical scholar and medical historian Max Wellmann also believes Abascantus lived in the time of Augustus.

Galen took his information about the drug Abascantus from the writings of Andromachus. Apart from these mentions works are Abascantus ' probably written in Greek lost. Galen praises in particular a system based on the use of milkweed Recipe of the Abascantus against snake bite. Furthermore, Galen describes a means of Abascantus against tuberculosis and one for colic.