The Peripatetic Hippocrates and Other Monists in the Anonymus Londiniensis.

Abstract

Near the beginning of his commentary on Hippocrates’ Nature of Man, Galen refers the reader who might wish to know more about the various opinions of ancient doctors to the Iatrike Sunagoge or Medical Collection composed in Aristotle’s school. By way of identifying the text fully, and perhaps emphasizing its merit and correspondence with the other Peripatetic scholarship he has cited in the context, he notes that it is attributed to Aristotle: but he then adds that everyone knows it was really written by Aristotle’s pupil Menon, an attribution which will lead to a certain qualification of its value.