Sluiter I
Clio Med. 1995;28:519-35.
In antiquity the 'higher' study of medicine shared with many other disciplines a pronounced philological character. Galen both exploited this 'philological paradigm' and underwent its influence. He exploited it in that it enabled him to invest the Corpus Hippocraticum with a dignity comparable to that of Homer only. But his philological instrumentarium, originally designed for the study of literary texts, also forced him to pose and answer certain questions that shed no light whatsoever on the informational content of Hippocrates' writings, questions about Hippocrates' language and style. Galen disentangles himself from the ensuing embarrassment by claiming that Hippocrates' style was ideal for the specific didactic genre he was involved in. This special style necessitates a reassessment of customary grammatical and rhetorical values: correctness recedes into the background, clarity and brevity become the predominant virtues of style.
在古代，医学的“高等”研究与许多其他学科一样，具有显著的文献学特征。盖伦既利用了这种“文献学范式”，又受到了它的影响。他利用它是因为这使他能够赋予《希波克拉底文集》一种仅与荷马作品相当的尊严。但他原本用于研究文学文本的文献学工具，也迫使他提出并回答某些与希波克拉底著作的信息内容毫无关系的问题，即关于希波克拉底的语言和风格的问题。盖伦通过声称希波克拉底的风格对于他所从事的特定教学体裁来说是理想的，从而摆脱了随之而来的尴尬。这种特殊风格需要对惯常的语法和修辞价值进行重新评估：正确性退居次要地位，清晰性和简洁性成为风格的主要优点。
