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

1. Greek Medicine and Hippocrates

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theory in his philosophical system.
For the medical theories of Philolaus see the extracts from the recently discovered Iatrica of Menon, discussed by Diels in Hermes XXVIII., p. 417 foll.
Empedocles, who flourished somewhat earlier than Philolaus, was a " medicine-man " rather than a physician, though he is called by Galen the founder of the Italian school of medicine.
Galen X. 5.
The medical side of his teaching was partly magic and quackery.

This combination of medicine and philosophy is clearly marked in the Hippocratic collection. There are some treatises which seek to explain medical phenomena by a priori assumptions, after the manner of the philosophers with their method of ὑποθέσεισ2 or postulates ; there are others which strongly oppose this method. The Roman Celsus in his preface
Hippocrates . . . ab studio sapientiae disciplinam hanc separavit, vir et arte et facundia insignis.
asserts that Hippocrates separated medicine from philosophy, and it is a fact that the best works of the Hippocratic school are as free from philosophic assumptions as they are from religious dogma. But before attempting to estimate the work of Hippocrates it is necessary to consider, not only the doctrine of the philosophers, but also the possibly pre-Hippocratic books in the Corpus. These are the Prenotions of Cos and the First Prorrhetic,
Grimm, Ermerins and Adams are convinced of the early date of these. Littré seems to have changed his mind. Contrast I. 351 with VIII. xxxix. The writer in Pauly-Wissowa is also uncertain. I hope to treat the question fully when I come to Prognostic in Vol. II.
and perhaps the treatise--in Latin and Arabic, the Greek original having mostly perished--on the number seven (περὶ ἑβδομάδων).