00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000001415 20200508201447 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 0-85229-531-6x9 010-0520001415 eng 081.20 081.20/PLA/G Hippocratic Great Books of The Western World Ke-5 Chicago Encyclopedia Britannica 2005 ix, 449 hlm, 21 cm Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Volume 9 provides the history, philosophy, works and story of Hippocratic Writings, and Galen, a prominent ancient Greek physician, whose theories dominated Western medical science for over a millennium. The forename "Claudius", absent in Greek texts, was first documented in texts from the Renaissance.