Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 167

SYMPHORIEN CHAMPIER (1472?-ca. 1535) Epithome commentariorum Galeni in libros Hippocratis, Cohi. Primus Aphorismorum secundus Prognosticorum, tertius Regiminis acutorum morborum, quartus Epidimiarum. Eiusdem . . . Centiloquium isagogicum in libros Hippocratis. Johannem Marion 1516] [12] ciiii (misnumbered ciii) [4] ll.

Champier was born in a small village near Lyons and studied at the University of Paris. He entered the medical school at Montpellier in 1495 and his letters indicate that he was practicing medicine and teaching liberal arts within a year after matriculating. He returned to complete his degree in 1503. During his career, he engaged in the active practice of medicine and was a major figure in Lyons' Renaissance. An unusually active author, he wrote not only a number of medical works but numerous treatises on philosophy, history, theology, anti-occultism, and patristics. Champier's firm positions on the key issues of his day made him a controversial figure and he took an active part in that unfortunate aspect of Renaissance learning, the invective. He was a leading proponent of medical humanism and, although an extremely prolific author, modern authorities consider his writings largely unprofitable for study. Champier was wont to include a wide range of topics in his books and was not beyond borrowing freely from the ideas and thoughts of other authors. In the present work he has assembled Galen's (see No. 36 ff.) commentaries on four of Hippocrates works: the Aphorisms (see No. 1), Prognostics (see No. 7), Regimen in acute disease (see No. 232), and the Epidemics (see No. 8).

See Related Record(s): 36 1 7 232 8 168

Cited references: Durling 942; Osler 201; Wellcome 1425

Gift of John Martin, M.D.