The Genuine Works of Hippocrates

The Genuine Works of Hippocrates
By Hippocrates
Edited by: Charles Darwin Adams (trans.)

New York Dover 1868


Digital Hippocrates Collection Table of Contents



The Oath

On Ancient Medicine
   PART 1
   PART 2
   PART 3
   PART 4
   PART 5
   PART 6
   PART 7
   PART 8
   PART 9
   PART 10
   PART 11
   PART 12
   PART 13
   PART 14
   PART 15
   PART 16
   PART 17
   PART 18
   PART 19
   PART 20
   PART 21
   PART 22
   PART 23
   PART 24

On Airs, Waters, and Places
   PART 1
   PART 2
   PART 3
   PART 4
   PART 5
   PART 6
   PART 7
   PART 8
   PART 9
   PART 10
   PART 11
   PART 12
   PART 13
   PART 14
   PART 15
   PART 16
   PART 17
   PART 18
   PART 19
   PART 20
   PART 21
   PART 22
   PART 23
   PART 24

The Book of Prognostics
   PART 1
   PART 2
   PART 3
   PART 4
   PART 5
   PART 6
   PART 7
   PART 8
   PART 9
   PART 10
   PART 11
   PART 12
   PART 13
   PART 14
   PART 15
   PART 16
   PART 17
   PART 18
   PART 19
   PART 20
   PART 21
   PART 22
   PART 23
   PART 24
   PART 25

On Regimen in Acute Diseases
   PART 1
   PART 2
   PART 3
   PART 4
   PART 5
   PART 6
   PART 7
   PART 8
   PART 9
   PART 10
   PART 11
   PART 12
   PART 13
   PART 14
   PART 15
   PART 16
   PART 17
   PART 18
   APPENDIX

Of the Epidemics
   BOOK I
   BOOK III

On Injuries of the Head
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12
   Part 13
   Part 14
   Part 15
   Part 16
   Part 17
   Part 18
   Part 19
   Part 20
   Part 21

On the Surgery
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12
   Part 13
   Part 14
   Part 15
   Part 16
   Part 17
   Part 18
   Part 19
   Part 20
   Part 21
   Part 22
   Part 23
   Part 24
   Part 25

On Fractures
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12
   Part 13
   Part 14
   Part 15
   Part 16
   Part 17
   Part 18
   Part 18
   Part 20
   Part 21
   Part 22
   Part 23
   Part 24
   Part 25
   Part 26
   Part 27
   Part 28
   Part 29
   Part 30
   Part 31
   Part 31a
   Part 32
   Part 33
   Part 34
   Part 35
   Part 36
   Part 37
   Part 38
   Part 39
   Part 40
   Part 41
   Part 42
   Part 43
   Part 44
   Part 45
   Part 46
   Part 47
   Part 48

On the Articulations
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12
   Part 13
   Part 14
   Part 15
   Part 16
   Part 17
   Part 18
   Part 19
   Part 20
   Part 21
   Part 22
   Part 23
   Part 24
   Part 25
   Part 26
   Part 27
   Part 28
   Part 29
   Part 30
   Part 31
   Part 32
   Part 33
   Part 34
   Part 35
   Part 36
   Part 37
   Part 38
   Part 39
   Part 40
   Part 41
   Part 42
   Part 43
   Part 44
   Part 45
   Part 46
   Part 47
   Part 48
   Part 49
   Part 50
   Part 51
   Part 52
   Part 53
   Part 54
   Part 55
   Part 56
   Part 57
   Part 58
   Part 59
   Part 60
   Part 61
   Part 62
   Part 63
   Part 64
   Part 65
   Part 66
   Part 67
   Part 68
   Part 69
   Part 70
   Part 71
   Part 72
   Part 73
   Part 74
   Part 75
   Part 76
   Part 77
   Part 78
   Part 79
   Part 80
   Part 81
   Part 82
   Part 83
   Part 84
   Part 85
   Part 86
   Part 87

Mochlicus or Instruments of Reduction
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12
   Part 13
   Part 14
   Part 15
   Part 16
   Part 17
   Part 18
   Part 19
   Part 20
   Part 21
   Part 22
   Part 23
   Part 24
   Part 25
   Part 26
   Part 27
   Part 28
   Part 29
   Part 30
   Part 31
   Part 32
   Part 33
   Part 34
   Part 35
   Part 36
   Part 37
   Part 38
   Part 39
   Part 40
   Part 41
   Part 42

Aphorisms
   SECTION I
   SECTION II
   SECTION III
   SECTION IV
   SECTION V
   SECTION VI
   SECTION VII

The Law
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5

On Ulcers
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12
   Part 13
   Part 14
   Part 15
   Part 16
   Part 17

On Fistulae
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12

On Hemorrhoids
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7

On the Sacred Disease


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Aphorisms

SECTION VII

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Part 3

Hiccup and redness of the eyes, when they supervene on vomiting, are bad.


Part 4

A chill supervening on a sweat is not good.


Part 5

Dysentery, or dropsy, or ecstacy coming on madness is good.


Part 6

In a very protracted disease, loss of appetite and unmixed discharges from the bowels are bad symptoms.


Part 7

A rigor and delirium from excessive drinking are bad.


Part 8

From the rupture of an internal abscess, prostration of strength, vomiting, and deliquium animi result.


Part 9

Delirium or convulsion from a flow of blood is bad.


Part 10

Vomiting, or hiccup, or convulsion, or delirium, in ileus, is bad.


Part 11

Pneumonia coming on pleurisy is bad.


Part 12

Phrenitis along with pneumonia is bad.


Part 13

Convulsion or tetanus, coming upon severe burning, is bad.


Part 14

Stupor or delirium from a blow on the head is bad.


Part 15

From a spitting of blood there is a spitting of pus.


Part 16

From spitting of pus arise phthisis and a flux; and when the sputa are stopped, they die.


Part 17

Hiccup in inflammation of the liver bad.


Part 18

Convulsion or delirium supervening upon insomnolency is bad.


Part 18a

Trembling upon lethargus is bad.


Part 19

Erysipelas upon exposure of a bone (is bad?).


Part 20

Mortification or suppuration upon erysipelas is bad.


Part 21

Hemorrhage upon a strong pulsation in wounds is bad.


Part 22

Suppuration upon a protracted pain of the parts about the bowels is bad.


Part 23

Dysentery upon unmixed alvine discharges is bad.


Part 24

Delirium upon division of the cranium, if it penetrate into the cavity of the head, is bad.


Part 25

Convulsion upon severe purging is mortal.


Part 26

Upon severe pain of the parts about the bowels, coldness of the extremities coming on is bad.


Part 27

Tenesmus coming on in a case of pregnancy causes abortion.


Part 28

Whatever piece of bone, cartilage, or nerve (tendon?) is cut off, it neither grows nor unites.