- Foundations of Hippocratic Medicine
- Background on the Presocratic philosophers who influenced Hippocratic thought, such as Thales of Miletus, Anaximander, Heraclitus of Ephesus, Empedocles, and Diogenes of Apollonia. - Hippocrates of Cos
- Brief profile from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography. - On the Sacred Disease
- Text of Hippocrates' study arguing that illnesses have natural rather than divine causes. - Presocratic Influence upon Hippocratic Medicine
- Explains the basis of humoral theory in Presocratic ideas that man and the world were governed by the same natural laws and that contrasting elements constantly contradicted each other. - The Oath by Hippocrates
- Includes the text of the Hippocratic Oath written in 400 B.C.E.
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