Diseases

works attributed to Hippocrates

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  • Hippocrates
    In Hippocrates: Life and works

    Treatises called Diseases deal with serious illnesses, proceeding from the head to the feet, giving symptoms, prognoses, and treatments. There are works on diseases of women, childbirth, and pediatrics. Prescribed medications, other than foods and local salves, are generally purgatives to rid the body of the noxious…

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