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: THE CHARACTERS

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ἤτοι τὸ Υ γράμμα φαίνεται γεγραμμένον ἢ τὸ Θ, τὸ μὲν ὑγείαν, τὸ δὲ θάνατον σημαῖνον. ἔμπροσθεν δ' αὐτῶν ὁ τῶν ἡμερῶν ἀριθμός2, ἐν αἶσ2 ἐνόσησεν ἢ ἀπέθανεν ὁ κάμνων. οἱ δὲ ἐν τῷ μεταξὺ τούτων χαρακτῆρες2 ἄπαντεσ2 μέν εἰς1ι διὰ τῶν γραμμάτων, ἃ σημαίνει τὰ στοιχεῖα τῆς2 φωνῆς2, πλὴν τοῦ κάτωθεν ἀπεστιγμένου δέλτα. τίνα δὲ διάνοιαν ἕκας1τοσ2 αὐτῶν ἔχει, δηλώσω. μεμνημένων οὒν ἡμῶν, ὅτι τὰ πρὸ τοῦ τελευταίου τῶν χαρακτήρων, ὑφ' οὗ θάνατον ἢ ὑγείαν ἔφαμεν δηλοῦσθαι, γεγραμμένα τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἡμερῶν σημαίνει, περὶ τῶν ἄλλων, ὄσα μεταξὺ τούτων τε καὶ τῆς2 ἀρχῆς2 γέγραπται, ποιήσομαι τὸν λόγον. τὸ μὲν Α δηλοῖ ἀποφθορἁν, ἀπώλειαν, τὸ δὲ Γ γονοειδὲς2 οὖρον, τὸ δ̓ ἀπεστιγμένον, οἰάπερ ἔς1τιν ἃ κάτωθεν ἔχει,
This sentence is evidently corrupt.
τρόπῳ τοιῷδε γεγραμμἑνον Δͅ διαχωρούμενα δἰ ἱδρώτων καὶ διάρροιαν καὶ διαφόρησιν
Littré would read διαχώρησιν.
καὶ συνελόντι φάναι κένωσιν ἡντιναοῦν σημαίνειν Βούλονται, τὸ δὲ Ε ἐποχήν, ἔδραν, τὸ δὲ Ζ ξήτημα, τὸ δὲ Θ θάνατον, ὡς2 προείρηται, τὸ δὲ I ἱδρῶτα, τὸ δὲ Κ κρίσιν ἢ κοιλιακὴν διάθες1ιν, τὸ δὲ Μ μανίαν ἢ μήτραν, τὸ δὲ Ν νεότητα καὶ νέκρωσιν, τὸ δὲ Ξ ξανθὴν χολὴν καὶ ξένον τι καὶ σπάνιον καὶ ξυσμὸν καὶ ξηρότητα, τὸ δὲ Ο ὀδύνας2 ἢ οὖρον--ἔνιοι δέ φασιν, ὄταν ἐπικείμενον ἄνωθεν ἔχῃ τὸ Υ, τότε σημαίνειν τὸ οὒρον αὐτό, γραφόμενον ὡς2 εἰώθασι τὸ οὔτωσ γράφειν--, τὸ δὲ II πλῆθος2 ἢ πτύελον ἢ πυρὸν
Littré would read ??υρρόν.
ἢ πυρετὸν ἢ πνεύμονος2 πάθος2, τὸ [Π] δ' ἐν αὑτῷ μέσον ἔχον τὸ I, καθότι προείρηται, τὸ πιθανὸν δηλοῖ, τὸ δὲ Ρ ῥύσιν ἢ ῥῖγος2, τὸ δὲ Φ φρενῖτιν ἢ φθίσιν, τὸ δὲ Σ σπασμὸν ἢ στομάχον κάκως1ιν ἢ στόματοσ2, τὸ δὲ Τ τόκον, τὸ δὲ Υ ὑγείαν ἢ ὑποχόνδριον, τὸ δὲ Χ χολὴν ἢ χολῶδες2, τὸ δὲ Ψ ψύξιν, τὸ δὲ Ω ὠμότητα.

Kéhn XVII, A 611-613.