Maimonides (Cordoba 1138-Cairo 1138) was a Jewish physician, rabbi and philosopher of al-Andalus. By 1168 he was exiled to Egypt with his family, where he devoted himself to the practice of medicine and obtained a great prestige that took him to the service of the vizier's court. He is undoubtedly the most important and prolific author in the history of medieval medicine. His work, as varied and extensive as deep and interesting, had a great impact in the context of Jewish literature in general.

Maimonides wrote his Commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates about 1195. The commentary is preceded by an interesting prologue in which he explains the reasons that led him to write it: the importance of the author for his great wisdom; The difficulty of reading the work of Hippocrates, by knowing a series of premises that the reader does not know and, finally, because he considers that Hippocrates sometimes speaks in an unthinking or unordered way. Hippocrates (ca. 460 - 377 bc) was considered the "father of medicine". With him began a new way of understanding health and disease as natural phenomena, placing reason as the main instrument at the service of man, with the aim of achieving not only the conservation of health, but also the prevention and cure of disease.

This four-volume edition, translated and edited by Professor Lola Ferre, is the reissue of the first published Spanish version of the medical works of Maimonides. This third volume includes The commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. The treaties contained in the other volumes are: The health regime and The treatise on the cure of hemorrhoids (vol.1), The book of asthma (vol II) and The medical aphorisms (vol IV).