Alcmaeon (disambiguation)
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- Alcmaeon, son of Megacles: Add brief definition or description
Alcmaeon of Croton: A Greek natural philosopher, living c. 500 BCE, interested in particular in medicine and physiology, credited by scholars as the first person to recognize the brain as the seat of intelligence and mind, whose ideas about the causes of disease prompted or anticipated those of Hippocrates. [e]
