Medical treatise

...His "Histories," which unfold under a grand intellectual perspective of recording events in the human world and investigating their causes, are counted among the greatest masterpieces of Greek prose literature because of their clear and elegant flow. Another great work of Ionian prose is the "Medical Treatises" by the physician Hippocrates. It includes the history of medicine, the "Hippocratic Oath," which is still the ethical code for professional doctors today, a pathological investigation of epilepsy, which was called the "sacred disease," and an environmental theory that discusses the correlation between climate, constitution, disease, and civilization. It is written in clear prose and deals with human nature from a completely different perspective than contemporary epic poems, dramatic poems, or historical accounts. ...

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…人間世界のできごとを収録し，その因果を究明するという壮大な知的展望のもとに繰り広げられる彼の《歴史》の文章は，その明快優美な流れのゆえに，ギリシア散文体文学の最高傑作の一つに数えられる。　イオニア散文の今一つの雄は，医学者ヒッポクラテスの《医学論集》である。ここには医学史や，今日でも職業的医師の倫理綱領となっている〈ヒッポクラテスの誓い〉，〈神聖病〉と呼ばれていた癲癇（てんかん）の病理的究明，風土･体質･病気･文明の相関を論じた環境論などが含まれており，同時代の叙事詩や演劇詩，また歴史記述などとはまったく別個の角度からの人間論が，明晰な文章でつづられている。…

※「《医学論集》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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