Philinus of Cos (; 3rd century BC) was a Greek physician. He was the reputed founder of the Empiric school. He was a pupil of Herophilus, a contemporary of Bacchius, and a predecessor of Serapion.Pseudo-Galen, Introd., c. 4, vol. xiv. He wrote a work on part of the Hippocratic collection directed against Bacchius,Erotianus, Lex. Hippocr. in v. Amben and also one on botany,Athenaeus, xv. p. 681, 682 neither of which has survived. It is perhaps this later work that is quoted by Athenaeus,Athenaeus, xv. 28. p. 681, 682 Pliny ,Pliny, H. N. xx. 91, and Index to books xx. and xxi. and Andromachus.Andromachus, ap Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc., vii. 6, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. v. 13, vol. xiii.
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