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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NUTRIMENT

INTRODUCTION

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Heraclitus, was fully developed in one direction by Protagoras, who regarded knowledge as conditioned by (i. e. relative to) the percipient being. In Nutriment relativity is made to apply, not merely to the knowledge of properties, but to the properties themselves. Such an extension of the doctrine would probably be made somewhat later than the time of Protagoras, and we may with some confidence suppose that the author wrote about 400 B.C.

The first chapter of Nutriment distinguishes γένος2 from εἶδος2 after the Aristotelian manner. A similar distinction occurs in the Parmenides of Plato, and it need not prevent us from assigning a date as early as the end of the fifth century B.C.

In Chapter XLVIII mention is made of pulses, supposed to be the first occasion of such mention in Greek literature.
See Sir Clifford Allbutt, Greek Medicine in Rome, Chapter XIII, for the ancient doctrines about pulses. It is most remarkable that before about 340 B.C. their great importance was not realised.
This fact, again, is no argument against an early date. The reference is quite general, and amounts to no more than the knowledge, to be found in several places in the Hippocratic Corpus,
See Littré's index, s.v. battements.
that violent pulsations (of the temples and so forth) are characteristic of certain acute diseases.

It should be noticed that the doctrine of δύναμις2 described above is inconsistent with a post-Aristotelian date. Aristotle's doctrine is obviously a development of it, and it is clear how the earlier doctrine prepares the way for the later.

The Heraclitean love of anthithesis results in