This is a book about the history of philosophy, so why am I talking about medicine? Well, as I said at the end of the previous chapter, philosophy and medicine were very closely related in the Greek world. This is an example of something I’ve mentioned before: the close relationship between ancient philosophy and science in general. Medicine makes a particularly good example, because it was a preoccupation of so many philosophically-minded authors, and because we can actually trace the impact of philosophy on medical ideas.
