Heraclides of Erythrae (; fl. 1st century BC), a physician of Erythrae in Ionia, who was a pupil of Chrysermus,Galen, De Differ. Puls., iv. 10, vol. viii. a fellow-pupil of Apollonius, and a contemporary of Strabo in the 1st century BC.Strabo, xiv. Galen calls him the most distinguished of the pupils of Chrysermus, and mentions a work written by him, On the school of Herophilus (), consisting of at least seven books. He wrote a commentary on the sixth book of Hippocrates, De Morbis Vulgaribus,Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. Epid. VI., i. praef. vol. xvii. pt. i but neither this nor any of his writings survive.
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