Mantias

Mantias, (Greek: Μαντίας; 3rd century BC) a Greek physician who was the tutor of Heraclides of Tarentum,^[1] and one of the followers of Herophilus;^[2] and who lived therefore most probably in the 3rd century BC. Galen says that he was no ordinary physician,^[3] and that he was the first who wrote a regular work on pharmacy.^[4] His works on the subject, which are several times quoted by Galen, are lost, but the titles of some of them have been preserved.^[5]

Notes

1. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., ii. 15, vol. xiii. p. 462, 502
2. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., vi. 9, vol. xii. p. 989
3. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, ii. 1, vol. xii. p. 534
4. Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., vii. 91, vol. xiii. p. 462
5. Galen, De Simplic. Medicam. Temper. ac Facult., vi. praef. vol. xi. p. 795; Comment in Hippocr. De Offic. Med. praef. and i. 5, vol. xviii. pt. ii. pp. 629, 666; De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen., iv. 14, vol. xiii. p. 751

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.