Hippocrates, Volume II - Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art.

Volume II of the Loeb Hippocrates presents eight works by or attributed to the "Father of Medicine" that illustrate the value of medical theory and clinical methods, and propose a new model of medical education. Included are Prognostic, Regimen in Acute Diseases, The Sacred Disease, The Art, Breaths, Law, Decorum, and Dentition.

About the author

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

Summary

Volume II of the Loeb Hippocrates presents eight works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine” that illustrate the value of medical theory and clinical methods, and propose a new model of medical education. Included are Prognostic, Regimen in Acute Diseases, The Sacred Disease, The Art, Breaths, Law, Decorum, and Dentition.

Product details

• Authors: Hippocrates
• Assisted by: Potter Paul (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2023
• EAN: 9780674997585
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99758-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Loeb Classical Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; SCIENCE / History, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, History of Medicine, History of Science, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval