Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

2 by Galen, Galen, Brock, Arthur John, 1878-1947

Chapter 16: Chapter XII

Chapter 16: Chapter XII

The two chief medico-philosophical schools--Atomist and Vitalist. Hippocrates an adherent of the latter school--his doctrine of an original principle or "nature" in every living thing (doctrine of the unity of the organism).
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