Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians

Author : Owsei Temkin

Paperback

Published : Wednesday 26 April 1995

ISBN : 9780801851292

Price : €35.69

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In compromise, the Church accepted Hippocratic medicine with the proviso that the Christian physician shun all pagan or heretical interpretations of naturalism-he must not, for example, believenature to be divine, the soul a mere function of the brain, or himself the true savior of the sick.

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