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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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
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Epidemics I., II., III., VI.

Fractures.

Articulations.

Surgery.

Humours.
These are supposed by the latest criticism not to be genuine.

Nutriment.
These are supposed by the latest criticism not to be genuine.

Airs, Waters, Places (only fragments survive).

We also have his Glossary.

Commentaries on the following are altogether lost :--

Sores.

Wounds in the Head.

Diseases.

Affections.

He also wrote (or promised to write) the following, none of which survive :--Anatomy of Hippocrates, Characters in Epidemics III., Dialect of Hippocrates, The Genuine Writings of the Physician of Cos.

Galen also knew : Coan Prenotions, Epilepsy, Fistulae, Hemorrhoids, Airs, Places in Man, Regimen, Seven Months' Child, Eight Months' Child, Heart, Fleshes, Number Seven, Prorrhetic II., Glands, and probably Precepts.

The most important of the Hippocratic treatises not mentioned by Galen are Ancient Medicine and The Art.


6. LIFE OF HIPPOCRATES.

We possess three ancient biographies of Hippocrates : one by Suidas, one by Tzetzes, and one by Soranus, a late writer of uncertain date.