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Molpis

*Mo/lpis), a Greek surgeon mentioned by Heracleides of Tarentum (ap. Gal. Comment. in Hippocr. "De Artic." 4.40, vol. xviii. pt. i. p. 736), who must therefore have lived in or before the third century B. C. He wrote apparently on fractures and luxations.

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