Treaty of winds attributed to Hippocrates

This doctrine is that the winds produced by food residues are the basic basis of disease. Philosophical or meteorological medicine (Air, water, places)

The climatological concepts of Hippocrates

The publication of a medical papyrus at the end of the last century dating from the 2nd century AD titled the Anonymous of London which contains inside a doxography on the Greek doctors a summary of the Hippocratic doctrine on the causes of diseases after Aristote.

In this treaty on winds, all diseases are connected to a single cause: the air

La putréfaction de l'air contaminant le sang, le sang intoxiqué fait périr le malade

"One can not know the nature of Man without knowing the nature of everything" Hippocrates

Les Asclépiades of Cos and Cnidus

According to Hippocrates, medicine is regarded as an art. His conception of the health pointed out that the breath in the body is fundamental to live.

According to the greek founder of medicine, hunger is regarded as an illness. Indeed the body does not need to accumulate quantities of food. This is why people with obesity have low health and reduced immunity related to the laziness of their physiological structure.

He specifies that Chest hemorrhages are caused by the air.

Hippocrates tells us that of all that is contained in the body, nothing contributes more to intelligence than blood; as long as it remains in its constitution, intelligence also remains intact; but when it comes out, it is similarly altered. Blood blood is an identity card, not only biochemical but characteristically.