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.”


Format Inbunden Omfång 416 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Harvard University Press Utgivningsdatum 2010-05-31 ISBN 9780674996403