RMC13JFF–Hippocrates (on right) and Galen. Where Hippocrates touches the rosebush it flowers, whereas Galen's side is nothing but thorns. By the 17th century, the more empirically oriented Hippocrates was regarded as superior to the more theoretical Galen. Engraving from a 1677 German print in DE MORBO ATTONITO LIBER UNUS, by Justus Cortnumm.
RMC13JFP–Hippocrates (460-375 BC), Greek physician. Engraving, ca. 1800.
RMC13JFM–Hippocrates (460-375 BC). 20th century lithograph by Julius Schledorn.
RMC13JFN–Hippocrates (460-375 BC). Engraving from a ancient gemstone. Ca. 1800 by J. Chapman.
RMC13JFH–Hippocrates (460-375 BC). Engraving after an ancient sculpture. By P. Pontius, 17th century French school.
RMC13JE7–The three great ancient teachers of medicine: Galen (Roman), Avicenna (Persian), and Hippocrates (Greek). Woodcut from an early
RMC13JEC–Title page of Avicenna's, LIBER CANONIS TOTIUS MEDICINE (CANON OF MEDICINE), published in Paris in 1522. The systematic encyclopedia was based on Greek and Roman medicine with Avicenna's additions. Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna art pictured at top.
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