Nymphodorus (physician)

Nymphodorus, (Greek: Νυμφόδωρος; 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.[1] He was celebrated for the invention of a machine for the reduction of dislocations, called glossokomon (Greek: γλωσσόκομον), which was afterwards somewhat modified by Aristion, and of which a description is given by Oribasius.[2] He is mentioned by Celsus along with several other eminent surgeons.[3]

Notes

1. ap. Galen, Comment in Hippocr. De Artic., iv. 40, vol. xviii. pt. i. p. 736
2. Oribasius, de Machinam., c. 24, p. 179, etc.
3. Celsus, viii. 20, p. 185

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