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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ANCIENT MEDICINE

PART 19

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bile, great nausea, burning and weakness prevail. When the patient gets rid of it, sometimes by purgation, either spontaneous or by medicine, if the purging be seasonable he manifestly gets rid both of the pains and of the heat. But so long as these bitter particles are undissolved, undigested and uncompounded, by no possible means can the pains and fevers be stayed. And those who are attacked by pungent and acrid acids suffer greatly from frenzy, from gnawings of the bowels and chest, and from restlessness.
Or "distress."
No relief from these symptoms is secured until the acidity is purged away, or calmed down and mixed with the other humours. But coction, alteration, thinning or thickening into the form of humours through other forms of all sorts (wherefrom crises also and fixing their periods derive great importance in cases of illness)--to all these things surely heat and cold are not in the least liable. For neither could either ferment or thicken. †For what shall we call it? Combinations of humours that exhibit a power
Or "property."
that varies with the various factors.
There are many reasons for supposing that this sentence is either (a) in its wrong place, or (b) an interpolation. It seems quite irrelevant, and αὐτῶν should grammatically refer to τὸ θερμὸν and τὸ ψυχρόν, but there is not a crasis of these, but only of χυμοί. Hot and cold mixed produce only hot or cold, not a crasis. The sentence might be more relevantly placed at the end of Chapter XVIII, as an explanation of the process ἀποκαθίστασθαι πεφθέντα καὶ κρηθέντα. But transposition will not remove the other difficulties of the sentence. What is αὐτό? Health or disease? If health, then there is but one crasis producing it, not "many, having various properties." If disease, then it cannot be a crasis at all, but ἀκρασία. Finally, ἄλλην πρὸς2 ἄλληλα is dubious Greek. The whole sentence looks like an interpolation, though it is hard to say why it was introduced. The scribe of M seems to have felt the difficulties, for he wrote κρῆς1ισ2, πλὴν for ἄλλην, and ἔχους1α.
† Since the hot will give up its heat only when mixed with the cold, and the cold can be