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Great books of the Western World, v.9: Hippocrates, Galen, 2E

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Our knowledge of the historical Hippocrates is almost completely depent upon Plato. From the Protagoras and the Phaedrus we learn that Hippocrates was a contemporary of Socrates, that he was a native of Cos, and an Asclepiad, a member, that is, of a family or guild that traced its origin to the God of Healing. He was well know both as a practitioner and a teacher of medicine, and he held that knowledge of the body depends upon the knowledge of the whole man. There is also the implication in Plato's words that Hippocrates travelled from city to city and that, like the great sophists amd rhetoricians, he came to Athens to practise and to teach his art.

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R 030 BRI g/9

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: ., 1990

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xiii:449 p; 24 cm

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English

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0852295316

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GENERAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA

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