Dexippus of Cos

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Dexippus of Cos (also called Dioxippus) was a Greek physician from the island of Cos who lived in the 4th century BC and studied under Hippocrates. The Carian prince Hecatomnus asked him to cure his sons Mausolus and Pixodarus of a dangerous illness, and Dexippus agreed on the condition that Hecatomnus would stop waging war against his country. He wrote several medical works, but only their titles have survived. Erasistratus criticized him for being too strict in limiting how much his patients could drink. Plutarch and Aulus Gellius quote him in debates about whether drink goes down the windpipe or the esophagus.