Hippocrates, said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BCE,
learned medicine and philosophy; travelled widely as a medical
doctor and teacher; was consulted by King Perdiccas of Macedon and
Artaxerxes of Persia; and died perhaps at Larissa. Apparently he
rejected superstition in favour of inductive reasoning and the
study of real medicine as subject to natural laws, in general and
in individual people as patients for treatment by medicines and
surgery. Of the roughly 70 works in the 'Hippocratic Collection'
many are not by Hippocrates; even the famous oath may not be his.
But he was undeniably the 'Father of Medicine'.
The works available in the Loeb Classical Library edition of
Hippocrates are the following. Volume I: Ancient Medicine. Airs,
Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Precepts. Nutriment.
Volume II: Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred
Disease. The Art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Physician (Ch. 1).
Dentition. Volume III: On Wounds in the Head. In the Surgery. On
Fractures. On Joints. Mochlicon. Volume IV: Nature of Man. Regimen
in Health. Humours. Aphorisms. Regimen 1-3. Dreams. Volume V:
Affections. Diseases 1-2. Volume VI: Diseases 3. Internal
Affections. Regimen in Acute Diseases. Volume VII: Epidemics 2 and
4-7. Volume VIII: Places in Man. Glands. Fleshes. Prorrhetic I-II.
Physician. Use of Liquids. Ulcers. Haemorrhoids and Fistulas.
Volume IV also contains the fragments of Heracleitus, On the
Universe.
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