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Great Woman Physician
Antiochis From Tlos
There is another doctor who lived in the Lycian lands in the 1st
century BC and due to the treatment methods she developed,
her fame went beyond the borders of her country and reached
the capital city of Rome, the powerful empire of her time. The
name of the doctor who gained such a reputation during her
life as a woman was Antiochis. This great female physician was
from the village of Yaka, which is located near the deep canyon
where the cold waters flow, which is called Saklıkent today. It is
of Tlos.
Although Antiochis owed her success in medicine to her
own determination and hard work, the fact that her father Diodo-
tos was also a very successful doctor was an important factor
supporting her on this path. Her father Diodotos was such an
important physician that in the 1st century AD, his name was
mentioned as a medical authority in the dedication of the fa-
mous medical scholar Dioskourides’ volume entitled De Materia
Medica. As the daughter of such a successful father, Antiokhis,
who received her education from her father, carried the flag she
took over even further. So much so that the successful treatment
methods she had developed against rheumatism, sciatica, joint
inflammation, edema and spleen diseases. Her work enabled
Glaneus, the famous physician from Pergamon, who lived exact-
ly two centuries after her, to talk about these successful works
of Antiochis. So much so that Heraclides of Tarentum dedicated
a book he wrote on hemorrhoids to Antiochis. Antiochis, whose
fame spread out beyond Lycia, was honored by the members of
the council of Tlos in her hometown, and due to this honor, she
had her own statue erected in the city center (Künzl 2013).

“Antiochis of Tlos, the daughter of Diodotos,
who was appreciated by the Tlos Senate and the People’s
Assembly for her mastery in the medical profession’
had her own statue erected”.

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