The Corpus: The Hippocratic Writings
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781607142096 (1607142090)
Publish date: March 5th 2009
Publisher: Kaplan
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
I read this book to understand the basis of our modern allopathic medicine (because Hippocrate is considered as the father of modern medicine), when the allopathic doctors were having troubles to treat my allergies.It seemed to me that the only wisdom that the modern medicine has kept from this lear...
Life is short, and art long; pg. 47, Sec. 1, Aphorisms Hippocrates, the Greek doctor from Kos who practiced in the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. is best known for the oath that takes his name. During a time when gods dispensed calamities upon Western man, he strove to refine and expand medicine into ...