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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.

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.

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