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Hippocrates and the School of Cos

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The myth is well known: it is dispersed throughout the apocryphal texts of the Hippocratic Collection, the Letters, Decrees and Speeches (Littré, 1861, IX, pp. 308–428; Hercher, 1871, pp. 289–318; and Putzger, 1914): the king’s invitation, the patriotism of Hippocrates, the story of his relation to Democritus,1 the role he played at the time of the plague in Athens. The Hippocratic fervour that this heroic and scientific gesture aroused has not entirely dissipated since contemporary works for the public at large — perhaps exclusively francophone — retain significant aspects of it or weave new fantasies alongside these themes (see Joly, 1966, p. ff.).

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Joly, R. (1983). Hippocrates and the School of Cos. In: Ruse, M. (eds) Nature Animated. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6960-5_2

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