Part I

1. Nebros: ancestor of Hippokrates, called to Delphi, acted as doctor during a war, provides evidence of family transmission of medicine

2. School of Kos: approach to medicine following and associated with Hippokrates, certain writings in the Hippokratic corpus assigned to it, associated with island of Kos (Hippokrates' birthplace)

3. Golden age vs. progress: central argument of Ancient Medicine/Tradition in Medicine, "golden age" holds that people were better off in the past (Hesiod), "progress" that people are better off now (AM/TiM, eg, cooking)

4. Onasandros: doctor honored by demos/damos of Halasrna on Kos, third century BCE, decree illustrates training and career path of doctor (no "med school" but apprenticeship to doctor, public service, private practice)

5. Rhetoric: persuasive speech, develops especially in Athens with rise of democracy, rhetorical elements in the Hippokratik writings we read suggest that these texts may have been intended in part as oral persuasive speeches

Part II

1. "Constitution": description of the weather in a particular place over the course of a year, introduces context for individual cases given in the Epidemics, example of role of observation and experience in Hippokratic medical practice

2. Sacred disease: epilepsy, so called because of belief that it was caused by a god, central to the Hippokratic argument against regarding any diseases as "sacred"

3. Nomos and physis: fundamental opposition in 5th cent. BCE philosophical arguments about how to understand human behavior, convention vs. nature

4. Humors: 4 fluids (bile, blood, black bile, phlegm) believed by many medical writers to be central to health and functioning of body, slight imbalances help explain personality, gross imbalances cause disease (eg, phlegm as causal agent in epilepsy)

5. Techne: Greek term, "art" or "craft", covers range of activities from the high arts (sculpture, etc.) to crafts (carpentry, etc.), used as descriptor for medicine both in treatises and in the Onasandros inscription, slightly pejorative connotation in Greek

Scoring: assign each perfect item a "10" and detract 2 points for each missed element; give a "4" for somebody who has a general idea but fails to bring out the important elements, a "2" for anything written that's just completely wrong, and a "0" for failure to write anything at all. For example: "Nebros was a doctor" = "4"; "Nebros was a patient of Hippokrates" = "2".