John of Alexandria on Hippocrates and the Pneumatic School
There are no Pneumatists in the images from the Vienna Dioscorides (512 CE—this is f.3v). Source: Pedanius Dioscorides, Der Wiener Dioskurides, Codex medicus Graecus 1 der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt 1998 (Glanzlichter der Buchkunst; Band 8). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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“People ask, why does Hippocrates everywhere throughout the whole book credit pneuma with the creation of the child […]? Was he a Pneumatist? We answer, no, he was not a Pneumatist…”
ζητοῦσιν ὅτι πῶς ὁ Ἱπποκράτης πανταχοῦ ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ συγγράμματι αἰτιᾶται τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς δημιουργίας τοῦ παιδὸς [...]; πότερον πνευματικὸς ὑπῆρχε; φαμέν, ὅτι οὐκ ἤν πνευματικός...
John of Alexandria, In Hippocrates De natura pueri commentarium 49, (CMG 11 1,4, 174,11-14 Bell et al. = Dietz, Scholia in Hippocratem et Galenum, vol II p. 234-5).