Hippocrates Collected Works I

Hippocrates Collected Works I

Digital Hippocrates Collection Table of Contents

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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GENERAL INTRODUCTION

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.

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