G. E. R. Lloyd, historian of Greek science
author of Magic, Reason and Experience: Studies in the Origin and Development of Greek Science and Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece
he notes that ideas we may attribute to Hippocrates, Galen, Aristotle or Soranus "are clearly visible in early archaic Greece, and [argues] that the scientific traditions of Greek urban culture continuously assimilated elements from popular culture" Duden's summation, 32
he identifies a "reciprocal influence of popular beliefs and embryonic science" in the fifth century BC (in the largely untranslated "gynecological writings of the Hippocratic Corpus")