Herodicus, the father of sports medicine

Anastasios D. Georgoulis /  Irini-Sofia Kiapidou / Lamprini Velogianni / Nicholas Stergiou/ Arthur Boland
Ηρόδικος από τη Θράκη, ο πατέρας της αθλητικής Ιατρικής
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Herodicus, a Greek physician lived and practiced medicine in the fifth century BC. However, it seems that there are two men, both doctors who have been living in the same period in the extended region of ancient Greece, that bear the name ‘‘Herodicus’’. The existence of the second one became known only in 1893 when the codex Anonymus Londiensis, which included
the first history of medicine, was found and published [7]. In this text, a ‘‘Herodicus of Selymbria’’ (Anonymus Londiensis: 9.20) and a ‘‘Herodicus of Cnidos’’ (Anonymus Londiensis: 4.40) are mentioned one after the other. This is the reason that some scholars believed
that actually there were two different men. Nevertheless, a more careful examination of the information that codex Anonymus Londiensis and other ancient sources, can lead us to the conclusion that they refer to one and the same person. Firstly, these two Herodicus were not only contemporaries, but also shared the same medical theories…

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