Ordering Search/Browse Contact ... HUP Hippocrates, IV, Nature of Man. Regimen in Health. Humours. Aphorisms. Regimen 1-3. Dreams. Heracleitus: On the Universe Hippocrates Translator W. H. S. Jones Heracleitus 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'. Paul Potter 's earlier volumes in the Hippocrates edition were widely praised for their "excellentthat is, accurate and readabletranslations" (in the words of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine ). He is Professor of the History of Medicine | |
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