Places in Man. Glands. Fleshes. Prorrhetic 1–2. Physician. Use of Liquids. Ulcers. Haemorrhoids and Fistulas

About the author

Paul Potter is Chair of the Department of the History of Medicine, University of Western Ontario.

Summary

Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BC), but they are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body, and he was undeniably the "Father of Medicine."

Product details

• Authors: Hippocrates, Hippocrene Books, W. H. S. Jones
• Assisted by: Potter Paul (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1995
• EAN: 9780674995314
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99531-4
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 162 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Illustrations: Index
• Series: Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [e-mail]
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Literarische Essays, Medizin, allgemein, Medicine: general issues, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, MEDICAL / Essays, Literary essays, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics