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And that's our figure. Oops, it seems to have gone off.
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There he is, Hippocrates,
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who lived from about 460 to 377 B.C.
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Now, there's some debate about whether he was one person or a school,
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a group of people.
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There was...There is a corpus of Hippocratic writings
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that consists of about sixty works,
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perhaps by multiple hands.
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But that issue won't really concern us.
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We're concerned with Hippocrates
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as either this composite or single figure,
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and with the various schools that followed in his name.