Commonplaces in the traditional culture and the language of body description in the antique medicine

The author of the present article compares traditional Ancient Greek views about human body with the description of corporality in the Hippocrates medicine. The author comes to the conclusion that the Hippocrates medicine somatology borrows its methaphorics from the two spheres: the garden and the kitchen, i.e. cultivation and cooking. Being borrowed from these two spheres, traditional images of corporality are naturally included into the language of medical theory by way of additional experimental and rational reasoning.