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Nov 06, 1711 Fórnoles, Aragon, Spain Died on 03 Aug 1772 (aged 60)
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About Andrés Piquer
- Andrés Piquer (1711–1772) was a Spanish physician, philosopher, logician, writer and author.
- During the eighteenth century, a critique and re-evaluation of the Hippocratic Corpus within Spanish universities was pushed by Galenist scholars.
- Piquer contributed to this analysis of the corpus and served as a philosopher and doctor to the Kings Ferdinand VI and Charles III. Piquer is recognized for his translations of Hippocratic treatises from ancient Greek to Spanish and his efforts to transform medical university instruction in Spain to follow Hippocratic theory.
- Piquer's translation and commentary of Epidemics 1 and 3, and partially Epidemic 2, are noteworthy.
- His medical and physiological work relates to Hippocrates and the medical theories of Thomas Sydenham, 'the English Hippocrates', who is recognized for his work Observationes Medicae (1676).
