Vauthier del. Mecou sculp.
[n.d. c.1790.]
Rare stipple. 292 x 229mm. 11½ x 9". Cut.
Hippocrates (c.460 BC - c.380 BC), Greek physician, teacher, and 'father of medicine'. He searched for rational explanations to illness rather than religious or magical ones, founded a school in Cos and (allegedly) wrote an ethical oath that is still taken today by medical practitioners.
W: 1403-4/5?
[Ref: 24598]  £160.00