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HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS, Page
i
Translated by Francis Adams
ON THE NATURAL FACULTIES, Page 167
BY GALEN
Translated by Arthur John Brock, M. D.
HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Hippocrates, //. 400 b.c.
Our knowledge of the historical Hippocrates third century. The Collection is large and het-
is almost completely dependent upon Plato. erogeneousand althoughall wereattributedto
From the Protagoras and the Phcedrus we Hippocrates, the genuineness of some of them
learn that Hippocrates was a contemporary of was questioned even in antiquity.
Socrates, that he was a native of Cos, and an The Alexandrian accounts of the life of
Asclepiad, a member, that is, of a family or Hippocrates are rich in detail. He was born in
guild that traced its origin to the God of the year 460 b.c, descended from Hercules as
Healing. He was well known both as a prac- well as from ^Esculapius. He studied medicine
titionerand a teacherofmedicine, and he held andphilosophyfromfamousteachersandtrav-
that knowledge of the body depends upon the elled over the whole Greek world, curing a
knowledge of the whole man. There is also Macedoniantyrantofthe malady oflove,driv-
the implication in Plato's words that Hippoc- ingouttheplaguefromAthensbylightingfires
rates travelled from city to city and that, like inthepublicsquares,refusingtogotoPers—iato
the great sophists and rhetoricians, he came to treat the King, and dying at a g—reat age the
Athens to practise and to teach his art. dates range from 375 to 351 b.c. atLarissa in
The figureofthe legendary Father of Medi- Thessaly,where his tomb could still be seen in
cine soon replaced the historical Hippocrates. the second century, a.d. The honey of the bees
Although there is no evidence from his own thatswarmedtherewassaidtobehealingtothe
time that he left any writings, within a cen- mouth, a tribute to the man who, accordingto
tury medical works were being attributed to Celsus, was as eminent for eloquence as for
him, especially those emanating from the fa- knowledge.
mous medical school of Cos. The writings For succeeding generations Hippocrates has
which now go by the name of the Hippocratic been, as he was for Galen, the legislator of
Collectionconsistforthemostpartoftheearly medicine, the ideal physician "who with pu-
Greek medical treatises which were brought rity and with holiness lived his life and prac-
together by the Alexandrian scholars of the tised his art."
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