Complementary development of natural philosophy and medicine in Ancient Greece (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle)

N.P. Shok
Article is devoted to an actual issue of history of medicine – to the analysis of complementary development of natural philosophy and medicine in Ancient Greece on the example of the analysis of the natural philosophical views of great scientists of that period – Socrates, Plato, Aristotle.

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The apodictic method in the tradition of ancient Greek rational medicine: Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen

Dmitry A. Balalykin, Nataliya P. Shok
The authors suggest a defi nition of the apodictic method that can be applied to the history of medicine and reveals its development in the works of Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen. The apodictic method of proof in medicine is anatomical dissections, the rational doctrine of general pathology and clinical systematics.

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