Michael Italicus or Italikos (fl. 1136–66) was a Byzantine medical instructor (didaskalos iatron) at the Pantokrator hospital that had been established by Emperor John II Komnenos (r. 1118–43) in 1136. Pantokrator was a medical centre, at which Italicus lectured and explained physicians Hippocrates (460–370 BC) and Galen (129–200), and illustrated diseases through patient cases. His pupil Theodore Prodromos described smallpox. Between 1147 and 1166 he served as the Archbishop of Philippopolis.
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