Hippocratic novel
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According to Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World, the "Hippocratic novel" is an addendum to "Hippocrates' Aphorisms" and comments on the "madness" of Democritus as expressed in his laughter.
- In Rabelais' edition of the Hippocratic Novel (1532), celebrated by Sterne and one of Holmes' favorites (which he bought during his impecunious years of medical study in Paris, and could not part with at the end of his life, even when he gave ... --Oliver Wendell Holmes in the conversation of his culture Peter Andrew Gibian
- "In the 'Hippocratic novel' the laughter of Democritus had a philosophical character, being directed at the life of man and at all the vain fears and hopes related to the gods and to life after death. Democritus here made of his laughter a whole philosophy, a certain spiritual premise of the awakened man who has attained virility. Hippocrates finally agreed with him" Rabelais and His World(67).
- Bakhtin was fascinated by [Laurent Joubert] for his literary contributions to the "Hippocratic novel" and to the semiotics of laughter: "The famous physician Laurent Joubert, published in 1560 a special work under the characteristic rifle: Traité du Ris, contenant son essence, ses causes et ses mervelheus effeis, curieusement recherchès, raisonnés et observés par M. Laur. Jouber. In 1579 Joubert published another treatise in Bordeaux, La cause morale du Ris, de l'excellent et tres renommé Démocrite, expliquée et temoignée par ce devin Hippocrate en ses épîtres (The moral cause of laughter of the eminent and very famous Democritus explained and witnessed by the divine Hippocrates in his epistles). This work was actually a French version of the last part of the "Hippocratic novel" (Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World [Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1968], 68). --Hysteria Beyond Freud
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