Charmis

(Χάρμις), a physician of Marseilles, who came to Rome in the reign of Nero, A. D. 54 --68, where he acquired great fame and wealth by reviving the practice of cold bathing. (Plin. Nat. 29.5.) He is said to have received from one patient two hundred thousand sesterces, or 1562l. 10s. (Plin. Nat. 29.8.) He was also the inventor of an antidote which was versified by Damocrates, and is preserved by Galen. (De Antid. 2.1, 4, vol. xiv. pp. 114, 126.) [W.A.G]

(Χάρμις). A physician of Marseilles, in Nero's age, who revived the use of cold baths in Rome in cases of sickness, after the practice had been discontinued since the time of Antonius Musa (q.v.). He was very successful in his professional labours, and amassed great riches (Plin. H. N. xxix. 1).