**4. Conclusion: listening to Hippocrates (460–377 BCE)**

One of the most important treatises in the *Hippocratic Corpus* entitled *On Airs, Waters and Places* wisely begins with 'Whoever wishes to pursue properly the science of medicine must proceed thus. First, he ought to consider what effects each season of the year can produce; for the seasons are not at all alike, but differ widely both in themselves and at their changes' ([69], p. 71). Without any reasonable doubt, AT has been systematically overlooked in AN research, which has hindered a better understanding of the use of heat in the treatment of AN.
