G. E. R. Lloyd
 

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")

> from Barbara Duden's The Woman Beneath The Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1998)

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