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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suspended in it which did not settle ; delirium at night.

Sixth day. Violent and abundant epistaxis ; after a shivering fit followed a hot, copious sweating all over ; no fever ; a crisis. In the fever and after the crisis menstruation for the first time, for she was a young maiden. Throughout she suffered nausea and shivering ; redness of the face ; pain in the eyes ; heaviness in the head. In this case there was no relapse, but a definite crisis. The pains on the even days.


CASE XIII

Apollonius in Abdera was ailing for a long time without being confined to bed. He had a swollen abdomen, and a continual pain in the region of the liver had been present for a long time ; moreover, he became during this period jaundiced and flatulent ; his complexion was whitish. After dining and drinking unseasonably cow's milk
φαγὼμ according to this translation has no expressed object. Furthermore, βόειον is more naturally " beef." As the words stand the above version is the natural one, but I suspect that either βόειον should be transposed to between δὲ and καί, or else it is used ἀπὸ κοινοῦ and zengmatically with both φαγὼν and πιών, " after eating beef and drinking oow's milk." So Littré and, apparently, from his translation, Calvus.
he at first grew rather hot ; he took to his bed. Having drunk copiously of milk, boiled and raw, both goat's and sheep's, and adopting a thoroughly bad regimen,
Or, changing the comma at πάντων to κακῆ, " adopting a bad regimen, he suffered great harm in every way."
he suffered much therefrom. For there were exacerbations of the fever ; the bowels passed practically nothing of the food taken ; the urine was thin and scanty. No sleep. Grievous distension ; much thirst ; coma ; painful swelling of the right hypochondrium ; extremities all round rather cold ; slight delirious mutterings ; forgetfulness of every-thing he said ; he was not himself. About the