In the history of medicine, Diocles of Carystus is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Diocles of Carystus as ancient Greek physician.
Diocles of Carystus was born at Karystos in -400.
Medicine then rested on observation, humoral theory and inherited authority; anatomy was largely guessed at.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Diocles of Carystus died in -300, aged 100. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
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