Hippocratic tradition

Oxford, 1997), 226-7 Brian Copenhaver, Scholastic Philosophy and Renaissance Magic in the De vita of Marsilio Ficino , Renaissance Quarterly, yj (1984), 523-54 Linda Deer Richardson, The Generation of Disease Occult Causes and Diseases of the Total Substance , in Andrew Wear, Roger K. French, and I. M. Lonie (eds.), The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge, 1985), 175-94, esp. 184,188-93. The revival of the Hippocratic tradition is another component of this story. 

Smith s and Cunningham s conclusions fit recent scholarship on the Hippocratic tradition, which starts from the assumption that Hippocrates is not so much a real person, as a malleable cultural artefact, constantly moulded and remoulded according to need. 11 It follows that, in order to understand the Boerhaavian Hippocrates, we have to study Boerhaave s motives for adopting Hippocrates as his main hero. I argue that these motives were Calvinist and that Boerhaave saw Calvinist ideals paradigmatically expounded in Hippocrates.12... 

Wesley D. Smith, The Hippocratic Tradition (Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press, 1979), 27. 

The major authority for medicine in the Middle Ages was Galen of Pergamon, who worked in Rome in the second century AD. Galen adopted the humoral theory of Hippocrates, including the classification of mental illnesses, and his therapeutic recommendations were also based on the tradition of the Hippocratic school diet, vomiting, blood-letting and the administration of soporifics. 

If the broadest, least restrictive definition is employed, the use of functional foods for promoting health and relieving symptoms is as old as the practice of medicine. Specific dietary recommendations for treating or preventing various types of illness have been documented in Hippocratic and Vedic texts and the canons of traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese remedies frequently contain recipes for combining specific foods with... 

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