To Purge, to Bleed and to Cauterize: Some Examples from Greek Literature

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  • César Sierra Martín
Keywords: Hippocratic therapy, Hippocratic physician, medical practice and society

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The aim of this paper is to show the influence of Hippocratic medicine on three medical practices: purging, bleeding and cauterizing. The study of theHippocratic corpus allow us to ascertain the influence of this practices in Greek literature. In spite of the reluctance and criticism it received, this praxis was consolidated as a symbol of pragmatic medicine.

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Sierra Martín C. (2013). To Purge, to Bleed and to Cauterize: Some Examples from Greek Literature. Myrtia, 28, 69–83. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/myrtia/article/view/187931
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