\[ **BT: [[Greek philosophy]] | [[human beings#human health]]** ] --- # Alcmaeon of Croton ![[Huffman, ‘Alcmaeon’, 2025#^2481c2]][^1] [[Alcmaeon posited that good health was a state of balance between ‘opposites’ and that disease was the fault of an ‘undue preponderance on one of them.’]][^2] [^1]: Carl Huffman, ‘[[Huffman, ‘Alcmaeon’, 2025|Alcmaeon]]’, *Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy*, last updated 18 July 2025, <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/alcmaeon/>. [^2]: W. H. S. Jones, ‘General Introduction’, in *[[Hippocrates, Hippocrates. Volume I, trans. Jones, 1984|Hippocrates. Volume I]]* (London: William Heinemann, 1923; reprinted in 1984), p. xi. Internet Archive, [https://archive.org/embed/hippocrates0000hipp](https://archive.org/embed/hippocrates0000hipp).