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Heraclides of Smyrna

Follower of Hicesius, head of the Erasistratean school of medicine at Smyrna

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About Heraclides of Smyrna

Heraclides of Smyrna was a physician.

Heracleides of Smyrna was physician, mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius as one of the followers of Hicesius, the head of the Erasistratean school of medicine at Smyrna, who must therefore probably have lived in the first century BC.

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Physician

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Who was Heraclides of Smyrna?

follower of Hicesius, head of the Erasistratean school of medicine at Smyrna

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Heraclides of Smyrna was a physician.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Heraclides of Smyrna

· Wikidata: Q20002967

· DBpedia: Heraclides of Smyrna

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