[Geographical data of Hippocratic physicians]

This article studies the scope and the rationale of the geographical data in the Hippocratic writings of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. It is shown, for instance, that the authors of the gynecological treatises display a preference for medicaments coming from remote countries. The authors of the Epidemics usually mention the places where the patients come from, an area generally corresponding to Thessaly and Thracia, where Hippocrates himself was said to have resided.