Author
Andrés Piquer
Spanish writer (1711-1772)
Their life
Andrés Piquer was born in Fórnoles in 1711 and died in Madrid in 1772. He worked as a Spanish physician, philosopher, logician, and writer. He also served as a philosopher and physician to the kings Ferdinand VI and Charles III.
In the eighteenth century, Spanish universities saw a debate over the Hippocratic Corpus, pressed forward by Galenist scholars who sought to critique and reassess it. Piquer took part in this study of the corpus. He translated Hippocratic treatises from ancient Greek into Spanish and worked to reshape medical teaching in Spanish universities so that it followed Hippocratic theory.
His translation and commentary on Epidemics 1 and 3, along with a partial treatment of Epidemics 2, are among his best-known achievements. His medical and physiological writing draws on Hippocrates and on the theories of Thomas Sydenham, the English physician known as the "English Hippocrates," whose *Observationes Medicae* was published in 1676.
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