Hippocrates

Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press, 1999. First ed., first printing (full number line). Octavo quarter boubnd in black cloth with blue boards; dust jacket; 520 pp: illustrations; 24 cm Near fine(-) in very good to vg(+) dust jacket; slight sunning and rubbing to top edge of board; pages clean, binding tight; very mild general shelf wear to dust jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780801859076

"Hippocrates, considered for more than two thousand years the father of medicine, came over time to be credited with a life of mythic proportions and an enormous body of work. In view of Hippocrates' exceptional importance in the history of medicine, it may seem surprising that our knowledge of the life and career of this fifth century B.C. Greek physician should be so incomplete." "Jacques Jouanna contends that a great deal can be concluded about the life and works of Hippocrates." --Publisher