English Hippocrates

The Creation of the English Hippocrates

This article examines the process by which the London physician Thomas Sydenham (1624-89) rose to fame as the English Hippocrates in the late seventeenth century. It provides a survey of the evidence for the establishment of Sydenham's reputation from his own writings, his professional relations, and the writings of his supporters and detractors. These sources reveal that in the first decades o...

Hippocrates

Appendix to Regimen in acute diseases. Since only the last has ever before been turned into English, those who know no Greek (or who have difficulty with the dark sentences of the Hippocratic Corpus) will have at last the opportunity to read some of the most medically interesting texts of the Corpus. A considerable sampling of the English suggests that this is an extremely accurate rendering wh...

Hippocrates' Oath is challenged.

Reinventing Hippocrates

(other?) women, some of which reflects a historical situation in which wealthy women were able, in large part, to control their own lives. One can also see a growing scholasticism, perhaps taking place over a generation, as the masters of Salerno adopted Greek and Arabic modes of argument and explanation. These links with the early School of Salerno are judiciously explored, with consequent mod...

Poor Hippocrates.

To the Editor:-An unprecedented, unexpected, and worrisome editor’s note accompanied an article that appeared in a recent issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY’: The use of nalmefene for rapid narcotic detoxification as described in the preceeding [sic] article may be covered entirely or in part by US Patents 5,783,583 (April 12, 1996) and 5,922,705 (April 13, 1998) assigned to David Simon and Intensive Narc...