Hippocrates Invented Nothing: Popular Therapies in Healing Inscriptions

It has long been thought that the Hippocratic medicine in the Antiquity was opposed to the divine medicine: one was rational, the other was a mixture of superstition and religion. This article attempts to show by some examples from ancient Greek text sources that both medicines, one of the gods and...

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Main Author: Clarisse Prêtre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de São Paulo 2017-06-01
Series:Heródoto
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Online Access:https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/herodoto/article/view/1019