13 - Good Humor Men: the Hippocratics
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16 January 2011
Early Greek medicine up until Hippocrates, and its relation to Pre-Socratic philosophers like Empedocles.
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Further Reading
V. Nutton, Ancient Medicine (London 2004).
P. van der Eijk, Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease (Cambridge: 2005).
Episodes 1 - 14: The Presocratics
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Legend of Hippocrates and Asclepius
Hello Peter!
And greetings from Oslo!
In this episode you mention (around 7:00) the legend that Hippocrates acquired his knowledge about medicine from reading the walls of an asclepion. You wouldn't by chance have a reference for that handy, would you? I've come upon a similar story in a Coptic apocalypse from early Islamic Egypt and would like to point out the parallel in a paper I'm writing.
By the way, we have a mutual friend in Jason Carter!
Best wishes,
Lloyd
Hippocrates legend
Hi there! I guess that I must have gotten this from the Kirk Raven and Schofield collection of Presocratic fragments, which has a section on the Hippocratic corpus.
Say hi to Jason for me!
"For instance, Hippocratic…
"For instance, Hippocratic doctors already made extensive use of drugs."
Ooh... I see.
Drugs
It would explain a lot, actually.
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