Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 4

HIPPOCRATES (ca. 460 B.C.-ca. 368 B.C.) Aphorismorum sectiones septem. [Ex officina Joannis Oporini 1544] [16] 588 [2] pp. 18.8 cm.

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Leonhart Fuchs (see No. 241 ff.) was a brilliant student and received his baccalaureate degree at Erfurt, when only seventeen and a master's degree from Ingolstadt in 1521. He continued at Ingolstadt and three years later graduated in medicine. In 1535, after several years of practice and teaching, he became professor of medicine at Tübingen where he remained until his death. He was opposed to the study of Arabic writers on medicine arguing that the classic medical authors should be read and studied in the original Greek. As a result, he made many translations of the great classical authors and prepared numerous commentaries on their writings. The present volume is his commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms in which he includes not only his own commentary but often the comments and notes of Galen (see No. 36 ff.). The text of each aphorism is given in Greek as well as Latin and the commentary is in Latin.

See Related Record(s): 241 36

Cited references: Durling 2359; Osler 164 (Paris, printed by Jacques Bogard); Wellcome 3212 (Paris, printed by Jean de Roigny)