CLASSIC 36B Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Atomism
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Thucydides and the intellectual developments of the mid 5th century. Intellectual developments of the 2nd half of the 5th century: medicine, founded by hippocrates of cros. Can tell how they observe disease, how they looked at it or explanations for disease. Looked at affects of environment on someone"s health systematic observation, no religious explanation for disease, importance of diet and environment upon health. Now anyone, a doctor or laymen, may say as much as he knows about where this probably came from, or what causes he thinks are powerful enough to bring about so great a change. For my part, i will only say what it is like: i will show what to look for, so that if the plague breaks out again, people may know in advance and not be ignorant. I will do this because i had the plague myself, and i myself saw others who suffered from it.
