Critodemus

(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.] [W.A.G]