Abstract The seven books of the Hippocratic Epidemics appear to make it possible describe social profile patients who frequented Greek doctors from mid-fifth mid-fourth centuries, and in particular decide whether attended mainly well-to-do. Previous studies have concentrated on epigraphical evidence for high status many Thasian are named Books 1 3. But we need account artisan occupations some d...

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confessed inadequacy of Hippocratic priorities when confronted with the probings of the true philosopher. Yet even in apparent defeat, Hippocrates triumphs, for he has learned from Democritus and, so it is implied, incorporated what he has learned into his medicine. Christianity was, however, different from Greek philosophy. True, in its theology and, largely, in its ethics, Hippocratic medicin...

As a medical student I once heard Dr. Osler remark that he almost wished he could have lived in the fifth century before Christ so he could have sat at the feet of Hippocrates under the old plane tree on the Island of Cos and have listened to his discourses on medicine. This chance remark excited in me a persistent desire to visit, at some future date, this Island of Cos and sit down, myself, u...