Greek physician ( c. 460 – c. 370 BC)

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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.

Hippocrates. Line engraving after Fulvius Ursinus, 1570.

Pharmaceutical bill-head of Injection Brou: the head of Hippocrates, a couple in a forest and ballet dancers. Etching, 186-.

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.

Impetum faciens dictum Hippocrati per corpus consentiens philologice et physiologice illustratum observationibus et experimentis passim firmatum / [Abraham Kaau Boerhaave].

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.

Place des Épidémies dans la Collection hippocratique : le critère de la terminologie / Jacques Jouanna.

Thukydides und die hippokratische Medizin : naturwissenschaftliche Methodik als Modell für Geschichtsdeutung / Georg Rechenauer.

Chirurgia e graeco in latinum conversa / Vido Vidio ... interprete, cum nonnullis ejusdem Vidii commentariis.

Hapanta ta tou Hippokratous. Omnia opera Hippocratis ... / [Hippocrates].

De morbis libri IV. De passionibus libri II. De sacro morbo comitialive, liber I. De glandulis per omnia membra, liber I. De locis in homine, liber I. De specie, acie, visuve, liber I. De humoribus liber I. De mariscis et haemorrhoidibus liber I. De furore insaniave, liber I. De atrae bilis agitatione melancholiave, liber I / Interprete M. Fabio Calvo Ravennate.

Magni Hippocratis Coi opera omnia / [Hippocrates].

Les œuvres anatomiques ... / [Jean Riolan].

Opera omnia / ex Jani Cornarii versione, una cum Jo. Marinelli commentariis ac Petri Matthaei Pini indice.

Libri omnes, ad vetustos codices summo studio collati et restaurati / [Edited by Janus Cornarius].

Methodus cognoscendi & curandi adfectus capitis particulares, qui cerebro to proto aitheterio insidiantur, Hippocraticis, Paracelsicis, ac Harvejanis principiis illustrata, dissertationibus duodecim explanata ... / [Werner Rolfinck].

Aphorismi / ex nova Claudii Campensii interpretatione. Ejusdem ... annotationes, quibus illustrantur evidentissima Galeni errata. His deinde nexae sunt animadversiones simul cum apologia in Galenum, itemque naturales animadversiones in Aristotelem.

Centuria problematum medicorum therapeutika, in qua gravissimorum affectuum cognitio et curatio juxta principia Hippocratica, Galenica et Spagyrica pulchre deducitur ... partim in illustri Witeberga anno MDCVIII partim in inclyta Giessa anno subsequenti publice disputandi causa proposita ... / [Gregor Horst].

La cause morale du ris de l'excellant & tres-nommé Democrite / expliquee & temognee par le divin Hippocras, an ses Epitres. Traduite de Grec an Fransais, par M. I. Guichard.

The haven of health: chiefely gathered for the comfort of students, and consequently of all those that have a care of their health, amplified upon five words of Hippocrates, written Epid. 6. Labor, cibus, potio, somnus, Venus ... Hereunto is added a preservation from the pestilence, with a short censure of the late sicknes at Oxford ... / [Thomas Cogan].

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Hippocrates

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Methodus cognoscendi & curandi adfectus capitis particulares, qui cerebro to proto aitheterio insidiantur, Hippocraticis, Paracelsicis, ac Harvejanis principiis illustrata, dissertationibus duodecim explanata ... / [Werner Rolfinck].

Aphorismi / ex nova Claudii Campensii interpretatione. Ejusdem ... annotationes, quibus illustrantur evidentissima Galeni errata. His deinde nexae sunt animadversiones simul cum apologia in Galenum, itemque naturales animadversiones in Aristotelem.

La cause morale du ris de l'excellant & tres-nommé Democrite / expliquee & temognee par le divin Hippocras, an ses Epitres. Traduite de Grec an Fransais, par M. I. Guichard.

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Hippocrates

Images from the collections

Images by Hippocrates

Images featuring Hippocrates

Works from the collections

Methodus cognoscendi & curandi adfectus capitis particulares, qui cerebro to proto aitheterio insidiantur, Hippocraticis, Paracelsicis, ac Harvejanis principiis illustrata, dissertationibus duodecim explanata ... / [Werner Rolfinck].

Aphorismi / ex nova Claudii Campensii interpretatione. Ejusdem ... annotationes, quibus illustrantur evidentissima Galeni errata. His deinde nexae sunt animadversiones simul cum apologia in Galenum, itemque naturales animadversiones in Aristotelem.

La cause morale du ris de l'excellant & tres-nommé Democrite / expliquee & temognee par le divin Hippocras, an ses Epitres. Traduite de Grec an Fransais, par M. I. Guichard.

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