This article presents the course of the Hippocratic book The Art from the 3rd century b.C. until the 17th century a.D., and analyzes some issues discussed by the author, viz., the antitheses tyche/techné and techné/physis, the idea of medicine as a causal and predictive science, and the epistemological conceptions or the theory of medical knowledge.
Corpus Hippocraticum; History of medicine; Philosophy of medicine; The Art; Classical medicine