Hippocrates, Volume V: Affections. Diseases 1-2 [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Hippocrene Books and Hippocrates

The definitive English edition of the "Father of Medicine."

Hippocrates, said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BC, learned medicine and philosophy; traveled 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 favor of inductive reasoning and the study of real medicine as subject to natural laws, in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 0674995201
• ISBN13: 9780674995208
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.5" x 6.7"