IN the past twenty-five hundred years the number of reviews, commentaries, critiques and translations of the Hippocratic writings is astounding. The effect of these writings in freeing medicine from ...

Their thesis of medicine and disease was informed by the prevailing theory of the time – Hippocrates’ theory of the four humors, authoritatively expanded upon by the prominent Greek physician Galen in ...

Psycom: Jonathan Sadowsky, associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine and the Theodore J. Castele Professor of Medical History, addressed the early history of ...