The strength of his understanding attracted him to some of the great prose-writers of Greece, by whom that quality is most conspicuously displayed; notably to Thucydides, whom he has closely followed in his account of the 'Plague at Athens,' and, as has been shown by Mr. Munro, to hippocrates.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
In the physical sciences thought had been frequently cramped to fit the old theories inherited from Galen and Pliny and Aristotle and hippocrates.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
The subject of both was hippocrates, the great Greek father of medicine, whom Laennec admired very much and whose method of clinical observation was to prove the key-note of the success of Laennec's own medical career.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh