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Title: General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822 Enfield, William, 1741-1797
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: London : Smeeton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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of speculation. Heappears to have passed his life in travelling,and to have resided in various places. Hewas for a time at the court of Perdiccasking of Macedon, and his fame caused himto receive invitations from different cities ofGreece. His visit to Abdera, the inhabitantsof which had requested his aid to free theircelebrated countryman Democritus from asupposed madness, but whom he pronouncedthe wisest man of their city, is a noted in-cident in his history, but bears a fabulous ap-pearance. His supposed service in extinguish-ing the plague of Athens cannot be true, sincefrom the certain information of I hucydldes welearn that its ravages were unchecked, and thatthe physicians were its first victims. He is saidto have refused an invitation to the court ofArtaxerxes Longimanus, not choosing to exer-cise his art in favour of the enemy of (ireecc.It is alfirmed that he ilied at Laris<sa in Thesrsaly at a very advanced age. How dubious so-ever may be the circumstances of the life cf
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IflFPOCRATES qMEBECIJ^ H I P ( 205 ) H I P Hippocrates, it is not questioned tliat he ae-quircd a reputation which has ranked himamong the great men of Greece, and whichmay be traced from the age in which he flou-rished through all succeeding periods. Statueswere erected to his memory, and his maximswere received as authority, not only in theschools of medicine, but in the courts of law.He practised surgery as well as physic, the twobrandies not being separated till some ages af-terwards. He appears to have been a man ofgreat integrity and candour ; and his oath (ifgenuine) comprises the most important moralduties of the profession. He left two sons,Thessalus and Draco, botli eminent practi-tioners and also a number of disciples. Of the numerous works ascribed to Hippo-crates, some are indisputably genuine, some aredubious, and many are unquestionably spurious.It would be a subject for a treatise rather thaafor a biographical article to enumerate these, andto analyse their contents. T

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