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

NUTRIMENT
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PART 39

XXXIX. The natures of all are untaught.


PART 40

XL. Blood of another is useful, one's own blood is useful ; blood of another is harmful, one's own blood is harmful ; one's own humours are harmful, humours of another are harmful ; humours of another are beneficial, one's own humours are beneficial ; the harmonious is unharmonious, the unharmonious is harmonious ; another's milk is good, one's own milk is bad ; another's milk is harmful, one's own milk is useful.


PART 41

XLI. Food for the young partly digested, for the old completely changed, for adults unchanged.


PART 42

XLII. For formation, thirty-five days ; for movement, seventy days ; for completion, two hundred and ten days. Others, for form, forty-five days ; for motion, ninety days ; for delivery, two hundred and seventy days. Others, fifty for form ; for the first leap, one hundred ; for completion, three hundred days. For distinction of limbs, forty ; for shifting, eighty ; for detachment, two hundred and forty days. It is not and is. There are found therein both more and less, in respect of both the whole and the parts, but the more is not much more, and the less not much less.