(19) Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams, translation of
third edition by A. A. Brill, 1913.
(20) Aristotle: Parva Naturalia, De divinatione per
somnium, Ch. I, Oxford ed., Vol. III, 463 a.
HIPPOCRATES AND THE HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS
DESERVEDLY the foundation of Greek Medicine is associated with the name
of Hippocrates, a native of the island of Cos; and yet he is a shadowy
personality, about whom we have little accurate first-hand information.
This is in strong contrast to some of his distinguished contemporaries
and successors, for example, Plato and Aristotle, about whom we have
such full and accurate knowledge. You will, perhaps, be surprised to
hear that the only contemporary mention of Hippocrates is made by Plato.
In the "Protagoras," the young Hippocrates, son of Apollodorus has
come to Protagoras, "that mighty wise man," to learn the science and
knowledge of human life. Socrates asked him: "If . . . you had thought
of going to Hippocrates of Cos, the Asclepiad, and were about to give
him your money, and some one had said to you, 'You are paying money to
your namesake Hippocrates, O Hippocrates; tell me, what is he that
you give him money?' how would you have answered?" "I should say," he
replied, "that I gave money to him as a physician.
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