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Images

  • Hippocrates. Line engraving.
  • A physician examining a urine flask. Oil painting by Gerard Thomas.
  • The Tetragrammaton and orders of heaven surmounting portraits of famous medical philosophers (Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna etc.) and John Woodall. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.
  • Above, a man studying the entrails of a cadaver as the microcosm, with the macrocosm behind; below, Hippocrates, holding the staff of Aesculapius, and Galen; bottom, instruments for anatomy and surgery. Engraving by A. Santvoort, ca. 1650.
  • Hippocrates refusing the gifts of Artaxerxes. Engraving by Raphael Massard, 1816, after A.L. Girodet-Trioson, 1792.
  • Hippocrates. Line engraving by P. Pontius, 1638, after P. P. Rubens.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Hippocrates. Photograph after a bust.
  • Fame proclaiming the virtues of the remedy Tabonuco Pectoral. Colour lithograph, ca. 1921.
  • Hippocrates. Stipple engraving by M. Bovi, 1796, after A. Day.
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Works

  • view Saggio sopra la conformità della medicina degli antichi e de' moderni ovvero paragone tra la pratica d'Ippocrate, di Galeno, di Sydenham e di Boerhaave in riguardo al trattamento de' mali acuti ... / Traduzione dall'inglese.
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    Saggio sopra la conformità della medicina degli antichi e de' moderni ovvero paragone tra la pratica d'Ippocrate, di Galeno, di Sydenham e di Boerhaave in riguardo al trattamento de' mali acuti ... / Traduzione dall'inglese.

    Barker, John, 1708-1748 | Date: 1840
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    Impetum faciens dictum Hippocrati per corpus consentiens philologice et physiologice illustratum observationibus et experimentis passim firmatum / [Abraham Kaau Boerhaave].

    Kaau Boerhaave, Abraham, 1715-1753. | Date: 1745
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    De excrementis libri II / A Valentino Lublino Polono in studiosorum utilitatem dati. Alter de fecibus. Alter de urinis. Quibus accessit quaestio ejusdem quomodo medicamentum aequale, vel inaequale dicatur. Tractatus etiam utilissimus de morbo Gallico.

    Monte, Giovanni Battista da, 1498-1551 | Date: 1554
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    Place des Épidémies dans la Collection hippocratique : le critère de la terminologie / Jacques Jouanna.

    Jouanna, Jacques | Date: 1989
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    Thukydides und die hippokratische Medizin : naturwissenschaftliche Methodik als Modell für Geschichtsdeutung / Georg Rechenauer.

    Rechenauer, Georg | Date: 1991
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