Charmis of Marseilles

Charmis of Marseilles (fl. 1st century AD) was a famous Roman physician. A native of Massilia, he came to Rome during the reign of Nero.^[1] Pliny counted him as a "completely Greek physician".^[2] He achieved great fame and fortune in Rome by introducing the practice of cold bathing, which supplanted the astrological medicine of his fellow townsman Crinas.^[3] Crinas had in turn supplanted Thessalus, who followed the principles of the Methodic school of medicine.^[3]

It is said that he charged a client two hundred thousand sesterces for his services.^[1]^[4] He also practiced outside Rome, probably in his native Massilia.^[2] After some dealings with a "sick man from the provinces" he was fined a million sesterces by Claudius, who also exiled him.^[2]^[4]

Nonetheless, according to Pliny, he quickly regained a fortune while in exile in Gaul and after his return in Rome.^[2] It is thought that Charmis of Marseilles and the "Charmes" mentioned in Galen's On Antidoctes are the same person.^[1]^[2] Thus, thanks to Galen we know that he also treated women. An antidote used by him had several benefits, including effectiveness for menstrual problems, as well as the pain-free expulsion of the embryo.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Charmis". Perseus Project. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hemelrijk, Emily; Woolf, Greg (18 July 2013). Women and the Roman City in the Latin West. Brill. p. 276. ISBN 9789004255951. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
^ ^a ^b Conrad, Lawrence I.; Neve, Michael; Nutton, Vivian; Porter, Roy; Wear, Andrew (1995). The Western Medical Tradition 800 BC to AD 1800. Cambridge University Press. p. 54. ISBN 9780521475648. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
^ ^a ^b Prioreschi ·, Plinio (1998). Roman Medicine (Mellen history of medicine). Horatius Press. p. 602. ISBN 9781888456035. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

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[:1-1] "Charmis". Perseus Project. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

[:3-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hemelrijk, Emily; Woolf, Greg (18 July 2013). Women and the Roman City in the Latin West. Brill. p. 276. ISBN 9789004255951. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

[:2-3] Conrad, Lawrence I.; Neve, Michael; Nutton, Vivian; Porter, Roy; Wear, Andrew (1995). The Western Medical Tradition 800 BC to AD 1800. Cambridge University Press. p. 54. ISBN 9780521475648. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

[:4-4] Prioreschi ·, Plinio (1998). Roman Medicine (Mellen history of medicine). Horatius Press. p. 602. ISBN 9781888456035. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

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Tools	Cimolian earth Speculum Spoon of Diocles Strigil
Physicians	Pedanius Dioscorides Soranus of Ephesus Galen Asclepiades of Bithynia Aulus Cornelius Celsus Oribasius Muscio Philonides Antiochis of Tlos Antonius Musa Aurelius Opilius Meges of Sidon Sextius Niger Archagathus Marcellus Empiricus Caelius Aurelianus Cassius Felix Gessius of Petra Antyllus Criton of Heraclea Sextus Empiricus Marcellus of Side Serenus Sammonicus Sextus Placitus Aemilia Hilaria Quintus Gargilius Martialis Thessalus of Tralles Albucius Arcyon Athenaeus of Attalia Crinas of Marseilles Damocrates Charmis of Marseilles Scribonius Largus Andromachus Eudemus Alcon Herodotus
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