ACRON, a celebrated physician of Agrigentum, in
Sicily, who lived about the middle of the fifth century be-
fore Christ. He first thought of lighting large fires, and
purifying the air with perfumes, to put a stop to the pe-
stilence that ravaged Athens, and which was attended with
success. He wrote two treatises, according to Suidas, in
the Doric dialect; the one on physic, and the other on
abstinence or diet.