Relación y mutua influencia entre la Filosofía y la Medicina Hipocrática

Towards the middle part of the VI Centyry an important change takes place in the history of mankind thinking. Explanations about worlviews, mankind and its origins proposed by mytical thinkers are increasingly substituted by the so-called first philosophers’ explanations. It’s a reflection about nature in general and its processes, and they try to penetrate reality as it is and to discover the answers in natural causes. It is precisely in this new vision of nature that Western Medicine is rooted. A rational, scientific explanation of human illness wins over a mythical-magical mentality that maintains the sickness has a sacred character. The gods’ punishment has become a nature disorder. Illness belongs to the same order as things, movements, and planets, and from this perspective Hypocratic Medicine constitutes an transcendental in!ection point in the way to explain and cure illness. The Corpus Hippocraticum captures initially philosophical terms and ideas that have been incorporated or assumed in the scope of Medicine. In this paper, I approach the relationship between Philosophy and Medicine from two angels. The first one focuses on hypocratic writings which are considered as paramount of Philosophy’s influence on Medicine: On the diet and On the airs, waters, and places. The second one focuses on two philosophical concepts – physis and téchne – which were adapted, interpreted, and developed by Hypocratic Medicine in an original way with novel contributions which in turn had an influence on philosophers.