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The Hippocratic Critical Days
- Syllecta Classica
- University of Iowa, Department of Classics
- Volume 28 (2017)
- pp. 111-145
- 10.1353/syl.2017.0010
- Article
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Abstract:
Critical Days is a late antique compilation of passages from four Hippocratic treatises. This is the first study to consider it seriously as an independent text. I conclude that Critical Days values practical considerations over theory and texts over clinical observation. Critical Days sheds light not only on late antique medicine but also on compilation as a literary activity.*