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(fifth century A. D.), in whose honor a public statue was erected (Haller), and to whom is attributed the saying: "A good physician should either decline at the start to take charge of a patient, or else he should not leave him until he shall have brought about some measure of improvement"; finally, Heliodorus, and perhaps a few others who are less well known.