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Ancient · Medicine / science

On the Sacred Disease

by Hippocrates. A canonical or canon-adjacent work by Hippocrates examining medicine, observation, ethics; included to broaden the catalog’s historical, literary, or intellectual coverage.

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Date
c. 400 BCE
Origin
Ancient Greece
Era
Ancient
Genre
Medicine / science
Difficulty
Challenging
Length
Medium
Collection
The Western Canon

Subjects and themes

MedicineObservationEthics

Why it matters

A canonical or canon-adjacent work by Hippocrates examining medicine, observation, ethics; included to broaden the catalog’s historical, literary, or intellectual coverage.

This work is included in the collection on the basis of expanded synthesis: bloom / great books / modern library / revised canon. Its cataloged influence level is 4 out of 5.