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Democedes
Democedes of Croton was a Greek physician of the 6th century BCE. According to Herodotus he practised at Aegina, Athens and the court of Polycrates of Samos, was taken to Persia as a captive and cured King Darius I, then escaped home to Croton. Herodotus called the physicians of Croton the best in Greece in his time.
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