Hippocratic Writings (Penguin Classics)

by Hippocrates (Author), E.T. Withington (Translator), G. Lloyd (Editor), I.M. Lonie (Translator), J. Chadwick (Translator), W.N. Mann (Translator)

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  1983

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  This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb fractures, and the section called The Nature of Man describes the physiological theories of the time. The book ends with a discussion of embryology and a brief anatomical description of the heart.