Hippocrates Collected Works I

Hippocrates Collected Works I

Digital Hippocrates Collection Table of Contents

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. POLU/S AND O)LI/GOS 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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PRECEPTS

INTRODUCTION

(2) Chapters III-XIII contain remarks on medical etiquette, fees, patients' whims, quacks, consultants, lecturing to large audiences, late learners. These remarks are sometimes connected, but follow no plan.

(3) Chapter XIV contains a few disconnected remarks on illnesses and invalids.

So the work as a whole shows no signs of a prearranged plan. It is disjointed and formless. As far as subject-matter is concerned, the three parts distinguished above ought to be classed under separate branches of medicine :--

(1) This belongs to the theory of medicine, or rather to the theory of science generally.

(2) This belongs on the whole to etiquette (εὐσχημοσύνη).

(3) This consists merely of a few disconnected hints. Littré justly says of it (IX. 248): " J'y vois done une de ces intercalations que les copistes se permettaient quelquefois é la fin d'un traité, soit, comme dit Galien, pour grossir le volume, soit pour placer quelque fragment qu'on ne savait ou mettre, et qui, autrement, s'en allait perdu."

Yet it is remarkable that there is a certain style common to all three parts which points to the conclusion that the compiler, whoever he was, was no mere " paste-and-scissors " man, but an author who stamped his characteristics even on his borrowings. This style is marked by a studied aphoristic brevity combined with a genius for choosing out-of-the-way terms and expressions. It so happens that in addition the author appears to have been an imperfect

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