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    Hippocrates

    Hippocrates(c. 460–c. 370 BCE)

    Greek physician traditionally regarded as a founder of Western medicine and associated with observational clinical practice. The Aphorisms condense medical experience into short, memorable statements about illness, prognosis, and regimen. Hippocratic writing became a touchstone for later medical ethics and the art of diagnosis.

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    Hippocrates, by Sprengell

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    The aphorisms of Hippocrates, and the sentences of Celsus; : with explanations and references to the most considerable writers in physick and philosophy, both ancient and modern. To which are added, aphorisms upon the small-pox, measles, and other distempers, not so well known to former more temperate ages

    The Dial's edition: London, 1708

    A bilingual edition pairing Hippocrates' famous medical maxims with the sententiae of the Roman encyclopedist Celsus, including explanations and references to ancient and modern medical writers.

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