The Four Humors
Hippocrates and Galen
[URL formerly http://viator.ucs.indiana.edu/~ancmed/foundations.htm] Foundations of Hippocratic Medicine
The Hippocratics, who relied philosophically on the Pre-Socratic philosophers, argued the primacy of experience or theory. Fragments from Diels and Kranz.Hippocrates
Analyzes the Hippocratic Oath and explains Hippocrates' divergence from the natural philosophers.Hippocratic Oath
The physician's oath to the healing gods to refrain from giving a deadly drug, cutting the human body, revealing secrets revealed during the medical treatment.
The Pulse of Generations
Plato, Aristotle, and "Hippocrates" on the Heart.Also see my Medicine net links.
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