Talk:Hippocrates
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"The best known of the Hippocratic writings is the Hippocratic Oath."
"Incorrectly credited with the Hippocratic oath."
This seems contradictory. Did he write it or not?
CHz 17:13, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- He didn't actually write anything, I don't think (it's probably also unknown if he was even a real person). But there are "Hippocratic writings" attributed to him, even though he didn't personally write it. One of his students, or a student of the school associated with him, anyway, was the real author. Adam Bishop 17:16, 7 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Hippocrates lived !
Mr. Bishop's answer is very good, but a minor correction must be made. None of the 60-70 treatises of Corpus Hippocraticum ("hippocratic wirtings") can truly be ascribed to Hippocrates, but he was certainly a real person, a physician of very great reputation in Athens, at the end of 5th Century BC. We have the testimony of Plato in Protagoras (311b) that he learned medicine for a fee; in Phaedrus (270c-e) Plato gives us a glance in hippocratic thought: "if we are to believe Hippocrates, of the Asclepiad family, we cannot learn even about the body unless we follow this method of procedure" (translated by WHS Jones, 1923).
I am writing a paper on Hippocrates for school, and i need to know if there were any challenges that he faced. But I cannot find any challenges anywhere....help
- Please put this on the Reference Desk. There must be other internet resources. When you're done, please insert your findings here for future reference! JFW | T@lk 09:17, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Khios or Cos?
Who is "Hippocrates of Khios" and not "Cos". Is he the same guy?
