
HoP 013 - Good Humor Men - the Hippocratics
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Hypocratic Corpus - A Brief History of Hippocrates
One text called on ancient medicine actually defends what it considers to be traditional medicine against these new fangled theories which invoke hot, dry, cold and wet. The author thus anticipates arguments in the late ancient world where we will find galen criticising rival schools for saying that medicine is s simple to learn from a few theoretical principles.
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