Hippocrates, engraving by Paulus Pontius after Rubens — Hippocrates, engraving by Paulus Pontius after Rubens · Wikimedia Commons

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Hippocrates

c. 460–c. 370 BC · Physician

The physician of Cos whose name was given to a whole library of Greek medical writing, which treated disease as a natural process to be observed.

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17 works

On Ancient Medicine · Περὶ ἀρχαίας ἰατρικῆς
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
Airs, Waters, Places · Περὶ ἀέρων, ὑδάτων, τόπων
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
The Book of Prognostics · Προγνωστικόν
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
On Regimen in Acute Diseases · Περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
On Injuries of the Head · Περὶ τῶν ἐν κεφαλῇ τρωμάτων
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
On the Surgery · Κατ’ ἰητρεῖον
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
On Fractures · Περὶ ἀγμῶν
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
On the Articulations · Περὶ ἄρθρων
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
Instruments of Reduction · Μοχλικός
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
Aphorisms · Ἀφορισμοί
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
The Oath · Ὅρκος
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
On the Sacred Disease · Περὶ ἱερῆς νούσου
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
On Ulcers · Περὶ ἑλκῶν
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
On Hemorrhoids · Περὶ αἱμοῤῥοίδων
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
On Fistulae · Περὶ συρίγγων
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishFrancis Adams
Nutriment · Περὶ τροφῆς
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Henry Samuel Jones
Precepts · Παραγγελίαι
Hippocrates
- Ancient Greek + EnglishWilliam Henry Samuel Jones

Seventeen works of the Hippocratic Corpus, from the Oath and the Aphorisms to On the Sacred Disease, in Greek beside English.

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