Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates

Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the ''father of medicine'', he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known about him, and scholars have long debated his relationship to the works attributed to him in the so-called ''Hippocratic Corpus'', although it is undisputed that many of the works within it represent...