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# Hippocrates: A Rational Profession 460–370 b.c

...advised straining rain water after boiling through a cloth bag, called a “Hippocrates’ sleeve,” to prevent the water from smelling foul and causing hoarsenes

* [[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]], steeped in working on [[Hippocrates]], succumbs to [[User:Brian P. Long|Brian P. Long]]'s urging to start an ar

...ippocra.htm | title = Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | contribution = Hippocrates (c. 450–380 BC)|first = M|last = Boylan|year = 2006}}</ref> sometimes cal

For the early Greek physician [[Hippocrates]] of Cos, who lived at about 400 BCE [http://www.iep.utm.edu/h/hippocra.htm

...cting the theories of great authorities from the past such as [[Galen]], [[Hippocrates]], and [[Avicenna]]/[[Ibn Sina]], all of whose theories were in time discre

...erous errors in the anatomical assertions of the self-proclaimed heir of [[Hippocrates]] (460-360 BCE), [[Galen]] (129-216 CE) of Pergamum, the Greek physician/su

...e cures like." The similia principle had a prior history in medicine, from Hippocrates in Ancient Greece--who noted, for example, that recurrent vomiting could be

...were not novel; they had been used by [[bonesetter]]s since the time of [[Hippocrates]], but he further developed methods of 'cracking' the back which he called

...were not novel; they had been used by [[bonesetter]]s since the time of [[Hippocrates]], but he and other early pioneers in the field further developed methods o

While Hippocrates described a case of scurvy in about 400 BCE, the cause of this disease was

Finally, it is not without good grounds that Hippocrates in his book, "De Corde," entitles it a muscle; its action is the same; so i