John of Alexandria on Hippocrates and the Pneumatic School

“People ask, why does Hippocrates everywhere throughout the whole book credit pneuma with the creation of the child […]? Was he a Pneumatist? We answer, no, he was not a Pneumatist…”

ζητοῦσιν ὅτι πῶς ὁ Ἱπποκράτης πανταχοῦ ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ συγγράμματι αἰτιᾶται τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς δημιουργίας τοῦ παιδὸς [...]; πότερον πνευματικὸς ὑπῆρχε; φαμέν, ὅτι οὐκ ἤν πνευματικός...

John of Alexandria, In Hippocrates De natura pueri commentarium 49, (CMG 11 1,4, 174,11-14 Bell et al. = Dietz, Scholia in Hippocratem et Galenum, vol II p. 234-5).