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

SIXTEEN CASES

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constipated with hot,
Lit. "seething" or "boiling." The reference is possibly not so much to heat as to the steaming, frothy nature of the stools.
undigested stools. Urine throughout bad ; mostly comatose ; painful sleeplessness ;
The meaning apparently is that the patient was generally in a state of coma ; if not comatose, he was in pain and could not sleep.
continued aversion to food.

CASE II

In Thasos the woman who lay sick by the Cold Water, on the third day after giving birth to a daughter without lochial discharge, was seized with acute fever accompanied by shivering. For a long time before her delivery she had suffered from fever, being confined to bed and averse to food. After the rigor that took place, the fevers were continuous, acute, and attended with shivering.

Eighth and following days. Much delirium, quickly followed by recovery of reason ; bowels disturbed with copious, thin, watery and bilious stools ; no thirst.

Eleventh day. Was rational, but comatose. Urine copious, thin and black ; no sleep.

Twentieth day. Slight chills,
This sentence shows that περί in περιψύχω means not "very," but "all over." The phrase may mean "slight chilliness."
but heat quickly recovered ; slight wandering ; no sleep ; bowels the same ; urine watery and copious.

Twenty-seventh day. No fever ; bowels constipated ; not long afterwards severe pain in the right hip for a long time. Fevers again attended ; urine watery.

Fortieth day. Pain in the hip relieved ; continuous coughing, with watery, copious sputa ; bowels constipated ; aversion to food ; urine the same. The fevers, without entirely intermitting, were exacerbated