Hippocrates Collected Works I


Hippocrates Collected Works I



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. 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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NUTRIMENT

INTRODUCTION

THE treatise Nutriment is unique. It deals with an interesting subject in an unusual manner, and, in spite of the limitations of Greek physiology, many valuable and interesting views are set forth.

Heraclitus held that matter is, like a stream, in a state of continuous change. His system contained other hypotheses,
Some perhaps (e. g. the union of opposites) being more fundamental.
but this was the most fruitful, and the one which commended itself most to his followers and to his successors.

A later Heraclitean, whether a professional doctor or not is uncertain, applied the theory of perpetual change to the assimilation of food by a living organism, and Nutriment is the result. He has copied the aphoristic
It is interesting to note that the aphoristic style, which is a great aid to memory, came into vogue at a time when text-books first became necessary. It has its modern analogue in the "crammer's" analysis.
style and manner of his master, as well as the obscurity, with considerable success, and whole paragraphs might well be genuine fragments of Heraclitus.

The author's idea of digestion is far from easy to follow.

Apparently nutritive food is supposed to be dissolved in moisture, and thus to be carried to every part of the body, assimilating itself to bone, flesh, and so

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