Hippocrates, Volume VI: Diseases 3. Internal Affections. Regimen in Acute Diseases [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Hippocrates and Paul Potter

Book Overview

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: 0674995228
• ISBN13: 9780674995222
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.5" x 6.7"