Medical achievements of the Pythagorean school
AUTHORS : Lazarenko V.G.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Faculty of advanced training for doctors Izhevsk State Medical Academy, Izhevsk
YEAR : 2013
SUMMARY At the end of the 6th – first half of the 5th centuries. BC. most of the Pythagorean scientists and philosophers known to us were engaged in medicine,
or at least wrote on medical topics. Pythagorean medicine included mainly nutrition, gymnastics, and music therapy. The Pythagoreans discovered a
parallelism between the effects of diet and music, aimed at maintaining physical and mental balance.
Key words: Pythagoras, medicine, dietetics, nutrition for athletes.
