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This thesis examines sleep, dreams, and their role in ancient medical diagnosis and prognosis in the Hippocratic Corpus, Galen, and Aristotle. It provides overviews of diagnostic and prognostic procedures in Hippocrates and Galen, describing how they applied observation and inference. It details their theories of sleep, including causes and physiological processes. For Hippocrates, Galen, and Aristotle, digestion plays a central role in sleep. The thesis also examines their views on dreams beyond standard t

Author

Henry Lopes

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