Περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῆς

aka De prisca medicina

Ancient Medicine

Author

Hippocrates

Language

Ionic Greek

Year

c. 400 BCE

Country

Ancient Greece

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

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The treatise On Ancient Medicine is a work in the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of about sixty writings covering all areas of medical thought and practice. Traditionally associated with Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, philological evidence now suggests that it was written over a period of several centuries and stylistically seems to indicate that it was the product of many authors dating from about 450–400 B.C.