Corpus Hippocraticum (English spelling)

…His two sons were physicians, Thessalus and Dracon, but his son-in-law Polybus was the most outstanding physician. The 70 works of the Corpus Hippocraticum that remain today, with the exception of a few works, were compiled by scholars and librarians in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I in the early 3rd century BC. The basis of the Corpus Hippocraticum was the Cosian series, which was compiled between the mid-5th century BC and the mid-4th century BC and included works by Hippocrates himself and other physicians from Cos, as well as works by the Knidus school that was parallel to the original series. …

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…彼にはテッサロスとドラコンという2人の医者の息子がいたが，医学者としては女婿のポリュボスがすぐれていた。　現存する70編の《ヒッポクラテス全集Corpus Hippocraticum》は，若干の作を除くと，前3世紀初めプトレマイオス1世治下のアレクサンドリアの学者や図書館員によって編纂されたものである。その土台となったのは前5世紀半ばころから前4世紀半ばころまでの間に成立したヒッポクラテス自身の作と他のコスの医者たちの作を含むコス学派の叢書で，それと相並ぶクニドス学派の作も採られた。…

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