The definitive English edition of “Father of Medicine.” Hippocrates, said to have been born in Kos around 460 B.C., learned medicine and philosophy, traveled extensively as a physician and teacher, and consulted with King Perdiccas of Macedonia and Artaxerxes of Persia. He likely died in Larissa. It appears that he rejected the doctrine of the supernatural and preferred the strategy of inductive reasoning and the study of real medicine as a subject of natural laws, both generally and in relation to patients for treatment with drugs and surgery.

Of the approximately seventy works of the “Hippocratic Collection,” many are not actually by Hippocrates, and even the famous oath may not be his. However, he was undoubtedly the “Father of Medicine.” The works available in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Hippocrates are:

Volume I: Ancient Medicine. Winds, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Prognosis. Nutritional regimen.

Volume II: Prognostic. Regimen in acute diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art. Breathings. Law. Ethics. Dentition.

Volume III: On Wounds in the Head. On Surgery. On Fractures. On Joints. On the Lever.

Volume IV: Nature of Man. Regimen in Health. Humors. Aphorisms. Regimen 1-3. Dreams.

Volume V: Affections. Diseases 1-2.

Volume VI: Diseases 3. Internal Affections. Regimen in Acute Diseases.

Volume VII: Epidemics 2 and 4-7.

Volume VIII: Places in Man. Glands. Flesh. Prognostics 1-2. Physician. Use of Liquids. Ulcers. Hemorrhoids and Fistulas.

Volume IX: Anthropology. Nature of Bones. Heart. Eight-Month-Old Child. Koan Preconceptions. Critical Days. Exacerbations. Girls. Extraction of the Fetus. Vision.

Volume X: Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Impotence.

Volume XI: Diseases of Women 1-2.

Pages: 352, Year of Publication: 0101, Dimensions: 10.8x10.8 cm