Abstract
Abstract One of the biggest challenges to understanding Greek medicine in the fifth century BCE is that of accounting for two remarkable concurrent developments. On the one hand there is the move made by some Hippocratic authors to insist that all diseases have natural causes, on the other there is the growth of the cults of Asclepius and other healing gods and heroes. Earlier positivist historians of medicine liked to represent the former as superseding the latter. First there was religious medicine, the type represented in the shrines of Asclepius at Epidaurus, Athens, Cos, and elsewhere. Then came naturalistic accounts of diseases and their cures. Science, in a word, on this view, overtook religion as the basis of medical practice.
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