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ACRON

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 156 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACRON  , a

Greek physician, born at Agrigentum in Sicily, was contemporary with Empedocles, and must therefore have lived in the 5th century before Christ . The successful measure of
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lighting large fires, and purifying the air with perfumes, to put a stop to the plague in Athens (430 B.C.), is said to have originated with him; but this has been questioned on
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chronological /N 'N) grounds . Suidas gives the titles of several medical
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works written by him in the Doric dialect .

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