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Foundations of Hippocratic Medicine
Background on the Presocratic philosophers who influenced Hippocratic thought, such as Thales of Miletus, Anaximander, Heraclitus of Ephesus, Empedocles, and Diogenes of Apollonia.
viator.ucs.indiana.edu/~ancmed/foundations.htm
Hippocrates of Cos
Brief profile from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography.
scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/HippocratesofCos.html
On the Sacred Disease
Text of Hippocrates' study arguing that illnesses have natural rather than divine causes.
classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/sacred.html
Presocratic Influence upon Hippocratic Medicine
Explains the basis of humoral theory in Presocratic ideas that man and the world were governed by the same natural laws and that contrasting elements constantly contradicted each other.
www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Chad/pre-soc.html
The Oath by Hippocrates
Includes the text of the Hippocratic Oath written in 400 B.C.E.
classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/hippooath.html

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