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

9. CHIEF DISEASES MENTIONED IN THE HIPPOCRATIC COLLECTION.
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fever, and is a dangerous disease, in which the bowel is ulcerated, with the passing of blood. See περὶ παθῶν 23 and 25 (Littré VI. 234, 235), and more especially περὶ διαίτης2 74 (Littré IV. 616) :--

τοῦτο γὰρ (διάρροια) ὀνομάζεται ἕως2 ἂν αν̓τὴ μόνη σαπεῖσα ἡ τροφὴ ὑποχωρῆ. ὁκόταν δὲ θερμαινομένου τοῦ σώματος κάθαρσις δριμέα γένηται, τό τε ἔντερον ξύεται καὶ ἑλκοῦται καὶ διαχωρεῖται αἱματώδεα, τοῦτο δὲ δυσεντερίη καλεῖται, νόσος χαλεπὴ καὶ ἐπικίνδυνος.

"Dysentery" would include what is now called by this name and any severe intestinal trouble, perhaps typhoid and paratyphoid if these were diseases of the Greek world, while "diarrhoea" means merely undue laxity of the bowels.


Delirium

The Hippocratic collection is rich in words meaning delirium of various kinds. It is probable, if not certain, that each of them had its own associations and its own shade of meaning, but these are now to a great extent lost. Only the broad outlines of the differences between them can be discerned by the modern reader. The words fall into two main classes :--

(1) Those in which the mental derangement of delirium is the dominant idea ; e.g. παραφέρομαι, παραφρονῶ (the word common in Prognostic), παρανοῶ, παρακρούω (the most common word in Epidemics I. and III.), παρακοπή, ἐκμαίνομαι, μανία.

(2) Those in which stress is laid upon delirious talk; e.g. λῆρος, παράληρος, παραληρῶ, παραλέγω, λόγοι πολλοί.