About Nymphodorus
Nymphodorus was a physician.
Nymphodorus, (; 3rd century BC), a Greek physician, who must have lived in or before the 3rd century BC, as he is mentioned by Heraclides of Tarentum. He was celebrated for the invention of a machine for the reduction of dislocations, called glossokomon , which was afterwards somewhat modified by Aristion, and of which a description is given by Oribasius. He is mentioned by Celsus along with several other eminent surgeons.
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Who was Nymphodorus?
ancient Greek physician
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Nymphodorus was a physician.
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· DBpedia: Nymphodorus (physician)
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