Hippocrates, son of Heraclides, was born in 460 BC on the island of Kos (Greek island in the Aegean Sea), and died in 370 BC. He belonged to the guild of physicians called Asclepiadae, and his teachers were Herodicus and his father. Hippocrates taught in Greece, Persia, and Egypt. Hippocrates was not only a medical genius, but also a person who, in his passage through the world, shed a light th...

ascribed to Soranus and others. He repeatedly states reservations about how far these can be believed, but just as often rescues himself from serious doubt by appealing to an argument from plausibility. So far as the Corpus itself goes, it is not that we have Hippocrates at its centre, but rather, in the more frequent softer formulation, the work of Hippocrates and his circle-though again Jouan...

Hippocrates to the end of the sixteenth century. We may group them under three periods?1. Before the Christian era; 2. From the commencement of the Christian era to the fall of Rome; 3. (after the break of the ten centuries of the Dark Ages) From 1500 a.d. to the close of the sixteenth century. Each of these periods begins with an important name?the first with Hippocrates; the second with Soran...

ttemational Hippocrates Colloquium ( 13th : 2008 : Austin, Tex.), author. Ancient concepts of the Hippocratic : papers presented at the xmth International Hippocrates olloquium, Austin, Texas, August 2008 / edited by Lesley Dean-Jones and Ralph M. Rosen. p. ; cm. (Studies in ancient medicine, ISSN 0925-1421; volume 46) Includes bibliographical references and index. In English; two papers in Fre...

In antiquity the 'higher' study of medicine shared with many other disciplines a pronounced philological character. Galen both exploited this 'philological paradigm' and underwent its influence. He exploited it in that it enabled him to invest the Corpus Hippocraticum with a dignity comparable to that of Homer only. But his philological instrumentarium, originally designed for the study of lite...