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

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).