All sorts of magical powers were attributed to Empedocles.

The story of Pantheia whom he called back to life after a thirty days' trance has long clung in the imagination.

You remember how Matthew Arnold describes him in the well-known poem, "Empedocles on Etna"-- But his power Swells with the swelling evil of this time, And holds men mute to see where it will rise.
He could stay swift diseases in old days, Chain madmen by the music of his lyre, Cleanse to sweet airs the breath of poisonous streams, And in the mountain-chinks inter the winds.
This he could do of old--( 5) a quotation which will give you an idea of some of the powers attributed to this wonder-working physician.
(5) Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold, Macmillan & Co., 1898, p.

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But of no one of the men of this remarkable circle have we such definite information as of the Crotonian physician Democedes, whose story is given at length by Herodotus; and his story has also the great importance of showing that, even at this early period, a well-devised scheme of public medical service existed in the Greek cities.

It dates from the second half of the sixth century B.C .-- fully two generations before Hippocrates.