[Medicine in the Hellenistic age].

The article offers a review of the main literature about the supposed existence of a 'scientific revolution' in medicine during the Hellenistic age, to conclude that, if in other scientific disciplines a strong changement of cultural patterns certainly occurred, Hellenistic medicine was not able to complete a real 'revolutionary process', abandoning the Hippocratic and classical heritage.

Keywords

History of Medicine, History, Ancient

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