Critodemus
Κριτόδημος
(Κριτόδημος), a Greek surgeon of the family of the Asclepiadae, and a native of the island of Cos, who is said by Arrian (6.11) to have been the person who extracted the weapon front the wound which Alexander the Great received in storming the principal fortress of the Mallians, B. C. 326. [CRITOBULUS.]
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.