Azanites () was a physician of ancient Greece whose medical formulae appear to have enjoyed some celebrity, as they are quoted and praised by Galen,Galen, de Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 5.2. vol. xiii. p. 784 Oribasius,Oribasius, Synops. iii. p. 43 Aëtius of Amida,Sicamus Aëtius, Tetrab. iv. Serm. 2.34. p. 705; 3.21. p. 772 Paulus Aegineta,Paulus Aegineta 4.55, p. 530, 7.19, p. 686 and others.
He is credited with creating medical preparations to deal with ulcers, wounds, and other diseases. As Galen is the earliest writer by whom he is mentioned, he must have lived some time in or before the second century CE. Some scholars put him around the 1st century BCE.
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