# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/polybus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:52:36.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/polybus"
name: "Polybus"
slug: "polybus"
description: "Polybus was one of the pupils of Hippocrates, and also his son-in-law. He lived on the island of Cos in the 4th century BC. With his brothers-in-law, Thessalus and Draco, he was one of the founders of the Dogmatic school of medicine. He was sent by Hippocrates, with his fellow-pupils, during the time of the plague, to assist different cities with his medical skill. Afterwards, he remained in his native country. According to Galen, he followed implicitly the opinions and practices of Hippocrates, but the strict accuracy of this assertion has been doubted."
tagline: "4th-century BC Greek physician"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-450"
deathDate: "-400"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.69
  momentum:             6.644295302013423
  historical:           7.008928
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polibo_(medico)"
    title: "Polibo (medico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B2lib_de_Cos"
    title: "Pòlib de Cos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybos_(Mediziner)"
    title: "Polybos (Mediziner)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybus_(physician)"
    title: "Polybus (physician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polibo_de_Kos"
    title: "Polibo de Kos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polibio_de_Cos"
    title: "Polibio de Cos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybos_Koslainen"
    title: "Polybos Koslainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybe_de_Cos"
    title: "Polybe de Cos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1986160"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump