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The 27 pages that link to Hippocrates, each with the reason it gives.

• GoutRelated: His writings describe podagra and gout as conditions associated with age, sex, and lifestyle.

• History of medicineRelated: His name became attached to a professional ideal of observation and ethical conduct.

• PathologyRelated: His approach helped frame disease as a process with observable causes and outcomes.

• Hippocratic CorpusRelated: His name became attached to a collection whose authorship is much broader.

• Humoral theoryRelated: The Hippocratic corpus contains early accounts of health as balance among bodily fluids.

• AphorismRelated: His collection titled Aphorisms helped establish the form’s name and association with medical observation.

• Hippocratic medicineRelated: His name became attached to a diverse body of medical writings and practices.

• HumorismRelated: Texts associated with Hippocrates helped establish naturalistic explanations of illness.

• PhobiaRelated: Ancient medical writing includes early descriptions of intense, unusual fears.

• The Canon of MedicineRelated: The Canon preserves medical doctrines linked to the Hippocratic tradition.

• Miasma theoryRelated: The treatise Airs, Waters, Places connected health with environmental conditions.

• Necrotizing fasciitisRelated: His writings include an early description of a rapidly spreading, destructive gangrenous illness.

• Hippocratic OathRelated: Tradition connects him to the oath, though its authorship is uncertain.

• Geographic determinismRelated: His treatise “Airs, Waters, Places” linked climate and landscape to differences among peoples.

• Unani medicineRelated: Hippocratic writings supplied influential ideas about humors, environment, and regimen.

• Guy de ChauliacRelated: Chauliac invoked the Hippocratic tradition among the authorities underpinning learned medicine.

• History of pharmacyRelated: Hippocratic medicine helped shape the medical tradition from which pharmacy later differentiated.

• Abu Bakr al-RaziRelated: Al-Razi treated Hippocratic writings as a model for medical reasoning and observation.

• Female hysteriaRelated: Texts in the Hippocratic Corpus linked some women’s ailments to sexual abstinence and uterine movement.

• History of cancerRelated: His humoral framework shaped early explanations of cancer and supplied the term karkinos.

• History of neuroscienceRelated: His position challenged accounts that gave the heart primacy in mental life.

• History of neurosurgeryRelated: His writings describe head wounds and skull fractures, including when trepanation might be used.

• Nigella sativaRelated: Historical accounts associate the plant with classical Greek medical traditions, though specific attributions require caution.

• Science in classical antiquityRelated: The medical tradition bearing his name emphasized observation and natural causes of disease.