When Hippocrates made all his writing about the four humours and his oath, what did people think of it?

Question

did they not like it?
did his student like it?
did people not believe it or did they?
if anyone could give me what they think or know that would be great
and if anyone could give me a website that would give me info on what people thought of hippocrates works, during his time, it would be greatly appriciated.
No wiki.
thanks.

Answer 1

The problem at the time was that there were too many things going on with the human body that people just didn't have a clue about and this was a serious effort to make medicine an academic pursuit and not just an idea that it was all left up to a local healer or medicine man, or an ill-informed so-called doctor. He was trying to explain that the human body, like everything else in nature, held a certain balance and this balance had to be maintained or else you would end up with a cold, infections, etc.

He was quite well accepted at the time because to people in academic circles it seemed to make sense.