[Diseases and their treatment in Plato's depiction on the background of views of Hippocratic physicians].

Conception of biological nature of a man included in "Timajos" did not limit itself to presentation of the outline of anatomy and of physiology, but also touched on problems connected with origin of diseases and their treatment. Explanation of mentioned issues was based on the idea of a man as an element of the universe. Plato subscribed opinion that body as all the universe, consisted of four basic primeval elements. Excess or shortage of one of them, exchange of place with other elements or taking over another species property caused disturbances inside the organism leading to diseases. Plato attached large attention to duration of disease symptoms, especially fever. In the dialogue he did not pass over mental diseases, which he treated as illnesses of the soul. Besides he emphasised relationship between somatic and psychical diseases. Plato's opinions reflect the whole Greek natural knowledge, but in some questions they contradict opinions of hippocratic physicians.