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

NUTRIMENT
   

PART 50

L. And for such as need a quick reinforcement, a liquid remedy is best for recovery of power ; for such as need a quicker, a remedy through smell ; for those who need a slower reinforcement, solid nutriment.


PART 51

LI. Muscles being more solid waste less easily than other parts, save bone and sinew. Parts that have been exercised resist change, being according to their kind stronger than they otherwise would have been, and therefore less liable to waste.


PART 52

LII. Pus comes from flesh ; pus-like lymph comes from blood and moisture generally. Pus is nutriment for a sore ; lymph is nutriment for vein and artery.


PART 53

LIII. Marrow nutriment of bone, and through this a callus forms.


PART 54

LIV. Power gives to all things increase, nourishment and birth.


PART 55

LV. Moisture the vehicle of nutriment.
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