Hippocrates Collected Works I

Hippocrates Collected Works I
By Hippocrates
Edited by: W. H. S. Jones (trans.)

Cambridge Harvard University Press 1868

Digital Hippocrates Collection Table of Contents

PREFACE

GENERAL INTRODUCTION
   1. Greek Medicine and Hippocrates
   2. The Hippocratic Collection
   3. Means of Dating Hippocratic Works
   4. Plato's References to Hippocrates
   5. THE COMMENTATORS AND OTHER ANCIENT AUTHORITIES.
   Galen
   6. LIFE OF HIPPOCRATES.
   7. THE ASCLEPIADAE.
   8. THE DOCTRINE OF HUMOURS.
   9. CHIEF DISEASES MENTIONED IN THE HIPPOCRATIC COLLECTION.
   10. πολύς AND ὀλίγος IN THE PLURAL.
   11. THE IONIC DIALECT OF THE HIPPOCRATIC COLLECTION.
   12. MANUSCRIPTS.

ANCIENT MEDICINE
   INTRODUCTION
   ANCIENT MEDICINE
   APPENDIX

AIRS WATERS PLACES
   INTRODUCTION
   MSS. AND EDITIONS.
   AIRS WATERS PLACES

EPIDEMICS I AND III
   INTRODUCTION
   EPIDEMICS I
   EPIDEMICS III: THE CHARACTERS
   EPIDEMICS III
   SIXTEEN CASES

THE OATH
Introduction
OATH

PRECEPTS
INTRODUCTION
PRECEPTS

NUTRIMENT
INTRODUCTION
NUTRIMENT

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EPIDEMICS I AND III

EPIDEMICS III

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CASE III

The man lying sick in the garden of Delearces had for a long time heaviness in the head and pain in the right temple. From some exciting cause he was seized with fever, and took to his bed.

Second day. Slight flow of unmixed blood from the left nostril. The bowels were well moved ; urine thin and varied, with particles in small groups, like barley-meal or semen, floating in it.

Third day. Acute fever ; stools black, thin, frothy, with a livid sediment in them ; slight stupor ; getting up caused distress ; in the urine a livid, rather viscous sediment.

Fourth day. Vomited scanty, bilious, yellow vomits, and after a short interval, verdigris-coloured ones ; slight flow of unmixed blood from the left nostril ; stools unaltered and urine unaltered ; sweat about the head and collar-bones ; spleen enlarged ; pain in the direction of the thigh ; tension, soft under-neath, of the right hypochondrium ;
See note, p. 188.
no sleep at night ; slight delirium.

Fifth day. Stools more copious, black, frothy ; a black sediment in the stools ; no sleep at night ; delirium.

Sixth day. Stools black, oily, viscid, foul-smelling ; slept ; was more rational.

Seventh day. Tongue dry ; thirsty ; no sleep ; delirium ; urine thin, not of a good colour.

Eighth day. Stools black, scanty, compact ; sleep ; was collected ; not very thirsty.

Ninth day. Rigor, acute fever ; sweat ; chill ; delirium ; squinting of the right eye ; tongue dry ; thirsty ; sleepless.