Classical Greek Medicine and the Hippocratic Tradition (c. 460–350 BCE)

1. Traditional birth of Hippocrates on Kos

   Jan 1, 460 BCELabels: Hippocrates, Kos Island

   • Britannica
   • JAMA

2. Early Hippocratic-era treatises begin circulating

   Jan 1, 450 BCELabels: Hippocratic Corpus, Cnidus

   • Corpus
   • BMJ

3. Composition of *On Airs, Waters, Places*

   Jan 1, 430 BCELabels: Airs Waters, environmental medicine

   • Britannica
   • Corpus

4. *On Ancient Medicine* argues for empirical practice

   Jan 1, 420 BCELabels: On Ancient, empirical practice

   • AncientMed
   • Corpus

5. Clinical case-record style in *Epidemics* develops

   Jan 1, 410 BCELabels: Epidemics, case records

   • Corpus
   • BMJ

6. *On the Sacred Disease* naturalizes epilepsy

   Jan 1, 400 BCELabels: On the, epilepsy

   • Sacred
   • Corpus

7. *On the Nature of Man* formulates humoral balance

   Jan 1, 400 BCELabels: On the, humorism

   • NatureMan
   • Eulogikon

8. Hippocratic Oath tradition emerges within the Corpus

   Jan 1, 380 BCELabels: Hippocratic Oath, medical ethics

   • Oath
   • BMJ

9. Traditional death of Hippocrates at Larissa

   Jan 1, 375 BCELabels: Hippocrates, Larissa

   • Britannica
   • JAMA

10. Earliest monumental phase of the Kos Asklepieion

    Jan 1, 350 BCELabels: Kos Asklepieion, sanctuary

    • PubMed
    • KosGR

11. Alexandrian-era gathering of Hippocratic writings begins

    Jan 1, 300 BCELabels: Alexandria, text collection

    • BMJ
    • Pinakes

12. Hippocratic medicine becomes a classical reference tradition

    Jan 1, 280 BCELabels: Hippocratic tradition, medical pedagogy

    • Britannica
    • Corpus