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Introduction: the uses and meanings of Hippocrates -- The power of paternity: the father of medicine meets the prince of physicians -- Hippocrates and the construction of 'progress' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century medicine -- The chemical Hippocrates: Paracelsian and Hippocratic theory in Petrus Severinus' medical philosophy -- The transformation of Hippocrates in seventeenth-century Britain -- Hippocrates and the politics of medical knowledge in early modern England -- Hippocrates, Bacon, and medical meteorology at the Royal Society, 1700-1750 -- Hippocrates and the Montpellier Vitalists in the French medical enlightenment -- The rhetoric of Hippocrates at the Paris School -- Making history in American medical culture: the antebellum competition for Hippocrates -- Hippocrates American style: representing professional morality in early twentieth-century America -- Hippocrates, holism and humanism in interwar France -- The name and the word: neo-Hippocratism and language in interwar Britain -- A model for the new physician: Hippocrates in interwar Germany.