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Hippocrates of Cos
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Hippocrates of Cos ( b Cos, 460 b.c.; d . Larissa...Little is known about the life of Hippocrates, although it may be stated with a fair...legend that began early to surround Hippocrates and continued to grow throughout antiquity...
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Hippocrates of Chios
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Hippocrates of Chios ( b . Chios; fl . Athens...mathematics, astronomy . The name by which Hippocrates the mathematician is distinguished from...means so in others. “ Thus Hippocrates, though a competent geometer, seems...
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Hippocrates
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Hippocrates ( c. 460–377 bc), Greek physician, traditionally regarded as the father of medicine. His name is attached to a...
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Diocles of Carystus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Athenians called him a “ second Hippocrates ” and Pliny the Elder ( Natural...Diocles came “ next after Hippocrates in time and reputation. ” Galen and Celsus place him as an equal with Hippocrates, Praxagoras, Herophilus, and Erasistratus...
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Asclepides
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...has survived intact. Asclepiades rejected the teachings of Hippocrates and other advocates of humoralism in favor of his own original...on the Aphorisms and In the Surgery, both attributed to Hippocrates. BIBLIOGRAPHY Works dealing with Asclepiades are E. Gurlt...
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Boerhaave, Hermann
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...conducted by Anton Nuck and independently studied the works of Hippocrates, Vesalius, Fallopio, Bartholin, and Sydenham. In 1963...inaugural public address he advocated the study of the works of Hippocrates. He lectured on the institutiones medicae at the university...
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Chauliac, Guy De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...medical historians went so far as to rank him second only to Hippocrates in his influence on surgery. His chief work was the Inventorium...different citations, but frequent references were also made to Hippocrates, Aristotle, Al-R ā z ī (Rhazes...
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Agricola, Georgius
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...the editorial staff for the Aldina editions of Galen and Hippocrates. He also joined the English group headed by Edward Wotton...products, with a view to compiling comments on Galen and Hippocrates. In those days St. Joachimsthal was the most important...
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Ibn Juljul, Sulaymān Ibn Ḥasan
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...particular interest because Ibn Juljul uses both Eastern sources (Hippocrates, Galen, Dioscorides, Abu Ma ’ shar) and Western...I, Hermes II, and Hermes III, Asclepiades, Apollon, Hippocrates, Discorides, Plato, Aristoltle, Socrates, Democritus...
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hippocras
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
...x2014; OF. ipo- , yþocras , forms of the name Hippocrates (ancient Gr. physician V B.C.), the wine being so called because it was strained through ‘Hippocrates' bag’ , a conical bag used as a filter.
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