# Aegimus

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For the [mythological](/source/Greek_mythology) ancestor of the [Dorians](/source/Dorians), see [Aegimius](/source/Aegimius).

**Aegimus** or **Aegimius** (Αἴγιμος or Αἰγίμιος) was one of the most ancient of the [Greek physicians](/source/Medicine_in_ancient_Greece), who is said by [Galen](/source/Galen) to have been the first person who wrote a treatise on the [pulse](/source/Pulse).[1] He was a native of [Velia](/source/Velia_(town)) in [Lucania](/source/Lucania), and is supposed to have lived before the time of [Hippocrates](/source/Hippocrates), that is, in the 5th century BC. His work was entitled Περί Παλμων ([Lat.](/source/Latin) *De Palpitationibus*, a name which alone sufficiently indicates its antiquity), which is no longer extant.

[Athenaeus](/source/Athenaeus) (2nd century AD) mentions that [Callimachus](/source/Callimachus) (3rd century BC) used to have a work by "Aegimius" that described the art of making [cheesecakes](/source/Cheesecake) (πλακουντοπουκόν σύγγραμμα),[2] and [Pliny the Elder](/source/Pliny_the_Elder) mentions a person of the same name who was said to have lived two hundred years;[3] but whether these are the same or different individuals is quite uncertain.[4]

## References

1. [Galen](/source/Galen), *De Differ. Puls.* i. 2, iv. 2. 11. vol. viii. pp. 498, 716, 752

1. [*"Athenaeus - The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets - page 32".*](https://books.google.com/books?id=R1bCBwAAQBAJ&q=Deipnosophists+Aegimus&pg=PA32). Oxford University Press. April 2015. ISBN 9780199313617.

1. [Pliny the Elder](/source/Pliny_the_Elder), *[Naturalis Historia](/source/Natural_History_(Pliny))* vii. 49

1. Greenhill, William Alexander (1867), ["Aegimus"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090211114659/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0035.html), "[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology)", Vol. 1, Smith, William (ed.), p. 26, archived from [the original](http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0035.html) on 2009-02-11, retrieved 2007-10-19

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