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Charidemus

Χαρίδημος

(Χαρίδημος), a Greek physician, who was one of the followers of Erasistratus and probably lived in the third century B. C. He is mentioned by Caelius Aurelianus (De Morb. Acut. 3.15. p. 227), and was probably the father of the physician Hermogenes.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.