num_pages: 400
description: Hippocrates of Cos is perhaps the best-known doctor of all time. His insistence on meticulous observation and the physical causation of illness, coupled with a rejection of supernatural causes, made him and his associates pioneers of the scientific method The writings in this volume are the work of a number of men as well as Hippocrates. They exerted a direct influence on the practice of medicine for hundreds of years and the tradition of medical ethics expressed in Epidemics and The Oath persists today. Including treatises on physiology, surgery and anatomy, this is a representative collection of the Hippocratic writings in one volume.
language: English
title: Hippocratic Writings
titlecomplete: Hippocratic Writings
genres: History, Classics, School, Biology, Science, Ancient, Philosophy, Ancient History, Medicine, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 333
publisher: Penguin Books