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.