Hippocrates 460-377 BC.

Hippocrates (ca 460-370 BC) on nasal cancer.

The prevalence of cancer in antiquity is rather an unknown scientific field. Nevertheless, During the 5th century BC, Hippocrates and his followers, studied thoroughly this fatal disease and proposed surgical techniques and palliative drugs to confront and treat the malignant tumors caused by the black bile (the 4 humors theory). Inside Corpus Hippocraticum, nasal cancer was mentioned, alongsid...

Hippocrates (460-c 356 BC) and the founding of perinatal medicine.

Knowledge of the life of Hippocrates is mainly based on tradition and on biographies written many centuries after his death. It appears that he was born in 460 BC on the island of Cos, near the western coast ofAsia Minor to a physician Heraclides and his wife Phaenarete. Except that he was of short stature, we have to rely on later Roman sculptures for an idea as to his appearance. He was taugh...

Hippocrates

Appendix to Regimen in acute diseases. Since only the last has ever before been turned into English, those who know no Greek (or who have difficulty with the dark sentences of the Hippocratic Corpus) will have at last the opportunity to read some of the most medically interesting texts of the Corpus. A considerable sampling of the English suggests that this is an extremely accurate rendering wh...

Hippocrates' Oath is challenged.

Reinventing Hippocrates

(other?) women, some of which reflects a historical situation in which wealthy women were able, in large part, to control their own lives. One can also see a growing scholasticism, perhaps taking place over a generation, as the masters of Salerno adopted Greek and Arabic modes of argument and explanation. These links with the early School of Salerno are judiciously explored, with consequent mod...