The unity of philosophical theory and medical practice in Galen’s views

Balalykin, D.A., A.P. Shcheglov and N.P. Shok
The paper analyzes the famous work «Quod optimus medicus sit idem philosophus» («On that the best physician is also a philosopher»). The authors translated the original text to let using it by Russian-language scientists within the complex study of medicine of 1st–2nd centuries C.E. in the context of the history of natural science.

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Pythagorean Legacy in Medicine

Nataliya Shok, Andrey Shcheglov.
DOI:  https://doi.org/10.25205/1995-4328-2019-13-1-307-314
Article focuses on the influence of Pythagorean teaching on medicine. This allows to examine the history of medicine as part of the philosophy and history of science. Among the philosophical ideas of the Pythagoreans significant to medicine was highlighted the ideas of opposites, mathematical proof and harmony.

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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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