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Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, known simply as the Father of Western medicine in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of medicine. This intellectual school revolutionized medici...

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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 clearly mistaken in much that They say; and this is The more reprehensible as relating to an art which all men avail Themselves of on The most import...

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The Genuine Works of Hippocrates Vol. 1 (of 2) is a foundational collection of medical writings attributed to Hippocrates, often regarded as the Father of Medicine. This volume, translated from the original Greek by Francis Adams, presents a comprehensive selection of treatises that have shaped the course of Western medicine for centuries. The works included cover a wide range of topics, from the ethical principles guiding medical practice to detailed observations on diseases, treatments, ...

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Charles Darwin Adams, W. H. S. Jones

Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is traditionally referred to as the "Father of Medicine".The Hippocratic Corpus is a collection of around seventy early medical works collected in Alexandrian Greece. The question of whether Hippocrates himself was the author of any of the treatises in the corpus has not been conclusively answered, but current debate revolves around only a few of the treatises seen as potentially authored by...

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Hippocrates of Kos (c. 460 - c. 370 BC) was a Greek physician of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is traditionally referred to as the “Father of Medicine” and 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.Our p...

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"The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Vol. 1" offers a comprehensive collection of writings attributed to the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, often regarded as the father of Western medicine. This volume presents a treasure trove of medical knowledge and philosophical insights dating back to the 5th century BCE. Hippocrates' works cover a wide range of medical topics, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment. His writings provide valuable insights into ancient m...

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in THASUS, about The autumn equinox, and under The Pleiades, The rains were abundant, constant, and soft, with souTherly winds; The winter souTherly, The norTherly winds faint, droughts; on The whole, The winter having The character of spring. The spring was souTherly, cool, rains small in quantity. Summer, for The most part, cloudy, no rain, The Etesian winds, rare and small, blew in an irregular manner. The whole constitution of The season being thus inclined to The souTherly, and with d...

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With regard to The construction of bones, The bones and joints of The fingers are simple, The bones of The hand and foot are numerous, and articulated in various ways; The uppermost are The largest; The heel consists of one bone which is seen to project outward, and The back tendons are attached to it. The leg consists of two bones, united togeTher above and below, but slightly separated in The middle; The external bone (fibula), where it comes into proximity with The little toe, is but sl...

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It is thus with regard to The disease called Sacred: it appears to me to be nowise more divine nor more sacred than Other diseases, but has a natural cause from The originates like Other affections. Men regard its nature and cause as divine from ignorance and wonder, because it is not at all like to Other diseases. and this notion of its divinity is kept up by Their inability to comprehend it, and The simplicity of The mode by which it is cured, for men are freed from it by purifications a...

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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed thus: in The first place to consider The seasons of The year, and what effects each of Them produces for They are not at all alike, but differ much from Themselves in regard to Their changes. Then The winds, The hot and The cold, especially such as are common to all countries, and Then such as are peculiar to each locality. We must also consider The qualities of The waters, for as They differ from one another in taste and weig...

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Men’s heads are by no means all like to one another, nor are the sutures of the head of all men constructed in the same form. Thus, whoever has a prominence in the anterior part of the head (by prominence is meant the round protuberant part of the bone which projects beyond the rest of it), in him the sutures of the head take the form of the Greek letter tau, T; for the head has the shorter line running transverse before the prominence, while the Other line runs through the middle of the h...

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Ptisan, then, appears to me to be justly preferred before all the Other preparations from grain in these diseases, and I commend those who made this choice, for the mucilage of it is smooth, consistent, pleasant, lubricant, moderately diluent, quenches thirst if this be required, and has no astringency; gives no trouble nor swells up in the bowels, for in the boiling it swells up as much as it naturally can. Those, then, who make use of ptisan in such diseases, should never for a day allow...