Moschion (physician)

For the author of the gynecological treatise Gynaecia, see Muscio.

Moschion, (Greek: Μοσχίων), is a physician quoted by Soranus,^[1] Andromachus,^[2] and Asclepiades Pharmacion,^[3] who lived in or before the 1st century. He may be the same person who was called the "Corrector" (Greek: Διορθωτής), because though he was one of the followers of Asclepiades of Bithynia, he ventured to controvert his opinions on some points.^[4]

A physician of the same name is mentioned also by Soranus,^[5] Plutarch,^[6] Alexander of Tralles,^[7] Aëtius^[8] Pliny,^[9] and Tertullian.^[10]

In Byzantine times, a Latin treatise on gynecology by an otherwise unknown Muscio was translated into Greek; this author came to be wrongly identified with Moschion.^[11]