Serapion of Alexandria

Serapion of Alexandria was an ancient Greek physician. He lived the end of the 3rd to the beginning of the 2nd century BC

He was the successor of the Philinos of Kos, an advocate and supporter of empirical medical school, where he is regarded as some of the real founder. Serapion put on strict rules for medical science experiments. Galen and the later empiricists have him very much appreciated.

Serapion devoted following, now questionable, treatment methods:

• Epileptics are to brush on the neck with wine vinegar and the body with rose oil
• Cure for epilepsy

• Chameleon brains
• Faint of heart
• Turtle blood
• Boar testis

• Enemas in madness and tetanus

It is reported that Serapion so often excrement of crocodiles for its treatments required that scammers thereof manufactured fakes. The infertility in women, it led to a " faulty temperature of the womb " back.