Hippocrates
Name under which the Hippocratic Corpus, including the Aphorisms and the Oath, was written contested
- Dates
- No dates given in the film's sources
- Chapters
- III. The Oath and the Ligature
Contested
The film attributes the texts to physicians writing under the name of Hippocrates, not to one author.
What the film says
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The film speaks of the physicians who wrote under the name of Hippocrates and watched the urine closely.
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The Oath's clause on not cutting for the stone is quoted in Adams's translation.
On the timeline
- 1849: Francis Adams's The Genuine Works of Hippocrates (Sydenham Society) gives the English Oath the film quotes. timeline