c. 400 BC–c. 300 BC
Hippocratic Corpus
Medicine · Science
The collection brings together Greek medical treatises by different authors and from different dates. Its clinical-observation accounts do not justify attributing every text to Hippocrates.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · approximate
- End
- year · approximate
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- Date not recorded
Reading the date: duration of a process.
Sources
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Pending verification: the source could not be accessed
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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