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Don't merge At this point I would prefer not to merge, unless every treatise in the Hippocratic Corpus is going to receive a multiparagraph summary in this article. Ancient Medicine describes one Greek author's fantasy of what s/he thinks the history of medicine is like. Maestlin 03:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
- Ok, I agree. But I leave open in the future for a possible merge once both articles are in better shape. I leave a See also section linking it with Ancient Medicine. --Francisco Valverde 14:19, 7 May 2006 (UTC)yes if you really think so then
[edit] parsimony and the export of some text
I found the account of Aristotles' biology to have lapsed into digression; consequently I shortened it. I found some of the content to be missing from the general article on Aristotle and hope to fit it in thereCAPONETC)
[edit] Good Source
There is an excellent account of the intellectual history of western medicine, from ancient Greece up to the end of the 19th century, in the online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica [www.1911encyclopedia.org]. It is much longer than is customary for a Wikipedia article, but it makes the five main schools of ancient medical thought all the more understandable for that. In contrast, the Catholic encyclopedia (also available online) has a clearer "point of view," which sometimes boils down to "Arabs bad - dogmatics/scholastics good."
These accounts must both be a century or so old, so it may not be appropriate to transfer their contents here wholesale: anyway most people who can access Wikipedia could look at them directly. NRPanikker (talk) 14:26, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
