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- Hippocrates was the first to separate medicine from philosophy & HE believed in the importance of diet & exercise for a healthy body. In antiquity, many legends arose of Hippocrates' great talents but most of these are likely pure invention.
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May 13, 2024 · Hippocrates, ancient Greek physician who lived during Greece’s Classical period and is traditionally regarded as the father of medicine. He has been revered for his ethical standards in medical practice, mainly for the Hippocratic Oath, which, it is suspected, he did not write.
By Hippocrates. Written 400 B.C.E. Translated by Francis Adams. On Ancient Medicine has been divided into the following sections: Download: A 41k text-only version is available for download . On Ancient Medicine by Hippocrates, part of the Internet Classics Archive.
The Hippocratic school of medicine revolutionized ancient Greek medicine, establishing it as a discipline distinct from other fields with which it had traditionally been associated (theurgy and philosophy), thus establishing medicine as a profession.
The Hippocratic treatise On Ancient Medicine, a key text in the history of early Greek thought, mounts a highly coherent attack on the attempt to base medical practice on principles drawn from natural philosophy.
- Mark Schiefsky
- July 17, 2018
- 2005
Here, Paul Potter presents the Greek text with facing English translation of five treatises that showcase the range of Hippocratic theory, philosophy, and practice: Ancient Medicine; Airs, Waters, Places; Epidemics 1 and 3; Precepts; and Nutriment.
I. ALL who, on attempting to speak or to write on medicine, have assumed for themselves a postulate as a basis for their discussion--heat, cold, moisture, dryness, or anything else that they may fancy--who narrow down the causal principle of diseases and of death among men, and make it the same in all cases, postulating one thing or two, all ...
Whoever having undertaken to speak or write on Medicine, have first laid down for themselves some hypothesis to their argument, such as hot, or cold, or moist, or dry, or whatever else they choose (thus reducing their subject within a narrow compass, and supposing only one or two original causes of diseases or of death among mankind), are all ...
