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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