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Alcmaeon of Croton, fl. c. 500 BC. Ancient Greek medical writer and philosopher whose works survive only as fragments. His relationship to Pythagoreanism is controversial. He is the first Greek known to have conducted human dissections.

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  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alcmaeon/
  Life and work of early Greek medical writer and philosopher-scientist; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Carl Huffman.

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