~ HIPPOCRATES  id+ FATHER OF MEDICINE or perhaps more so of
                   THE HIPPOCRATIC SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
  biol> honored by names of pl etc as in 
        HIPPORATEA  
        HYPOCRATEA
        HIPPOCRATACEAE
  hx> SORANUS WROTE IN THE 2ND CENTURY AD THAT
      HIPPOCRATES [#] WAS BORN ON THE ISLAND OF COS ABOUT 460 BC
  HE IS PRESENTED AS A PHYSICIAN AND THE FATHER OF MEDICINE
  BUT MAY MORE LIKELY REPRESENT A SCHOOL THAN ONE PERSON
  IN ANY CASE HIPPOCRATES IS THE MOST CELEBRATED PHYSICIAN EVER
  AND IS PRESENTED AS " FATHER OF MEDICINE "  ALSO PRESENTED AS
  A MAN OF LETTERS AND A PHILOLOGIST SCHOLAR AND PHILOSOPHER
  THE HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS ATTRIBUTED TO HIM ARE VAST
  SOME SEE IN HIM A STRONG SIMILARITY TO HOMER
  BUT THOSE THAT POSTULATE THAT NEITHER PERSON EXISTED MAY
  TO BE QUITE WRONG  SORANUS STATES THAT HIPPOCRATES WAS BORN
  ABOUT 460 BC AND DIED IN LARISSA IN THESSALY PROBABLY
  BETWEEN THE AGES OF 80-104
  THE COLLECTION OF HIS LETTERS AND HIS ACCOUNT OF THE
  PLAGUE IN ATHENS ARE CONSIDERED TO BE SPURIOUS
  ALSO THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY PROPAGATED AS FABLES BY ARABS
  ALONG WITH OTHER FABULOUS STORIES THAT REACHED EUROPE
  DURING THE MIDDLE AGES ARE CONSIDERED SPURIOUS
  IN THESE FABLES THERE IS A CLAIM THAT
  A MAN HYPOKRAS WAS A PHYSICIAN OF AUGUSTUS IN ROME
  THE MOST ANCIENT AND VALUABLE COMMENTARY IS
  "DE ARTICULUS" BY APOLLONIUS CITIENSIS AND CONCERNS THE
  DE NATURA HOMINIS
  DE SALUBRI VICTUS RATIONE
  DE RATIONE VICTUS IN MORBIS ACUTUS
  PRAENOTIONS
  PRAEDICTIONS
  APHORISMI
  DE MORBIS VULGARIBUS
  DE FRACTURIS
  DE MORIBUS  etc
  A LEADING EDITION IS BY LITTRE OF PARIS IN 1839
  THE HIPPOCRATIC COLLECTION IS EXTENSIVE AND
  DIFFICULT TO CLASSIFY
  THE MEDICAL HIPPOCRATIC SYSTEM
  DIVIDES DISEASES INTO TWO CLASSES
  THOSE DUE TO GENERAL INFLUENCES LIKE SEASONS WATER AND
  THOSE DUE TO PERSONAL PRIVATE CAUSES
  HIS MEDICAL PRACTICE WAS SO CAUTIOUS AS TO BE ALMOST FEEBLE
  LEADING TO REPROACHES OF LETTING PATIENTS DIE
  lit+ SOCRATES IS GIVEN CREDIT FOR MANY MAXIMS INCLUDING
       "  WHAT CAN NOT BE CURED BY MEDICINE
          IS CURED BY THE KNIFE                        SALUTE  SALUTARY  DEPRIVE  DEPRAVE  CORPS  CORPSE

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