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

language, physiology is inseparable from physics and chemistry.

From Aristotle
Politics, VII. 4 (1326 a).
we learn that Hippocrates was already known as "the Great Hippocrates."

Such is the ancient account of Hippocrates, a name without writings, as Wilamowitz says. There is no quotation from any treatise in the Corpus before Aristotle,
Who quotes from Nature of Man.
and he assigns as the author not Hippocrates but Polybus.
See Littré VI. 58 and Aristotle Hist. Animal. III. 3 (512 b), and compare Galen XV. 11.
The Phaedrus passage, indeed, has been recognized by Littré as a reference to Ancient Medicine, but Galen is positive that it refers to Nature of Man.

In fact the connexion between the great physician and the collection of writings which bears his name cannot with any confidence be carried further back than Ctesias the Cnidian,
Ctesias appears to have known the treatise Articulations, Littreé I. 70.
Diocles of Carystus
Diocles criticises Aphorisms II. 33. See Dietz Scholia in Hippocratem et Galenum II. 326, and Littré I. 321-323.
and Menon,
Menon refers to Airs (περὶ φυσῶν), Nature of Man, Places in Man, and Glands, Hippocrates being expressly connected with the first two.
the writer of the recently discovered Iatrica. Ctesias and Diocles belong to the earlier half of the fourth century, and Menon was a pupil of Aristotle.

7. THE ASCLEPIADAE.

Hippocrates was, according to Plato, an Asclepiad. This raises the very difficult question, who the Asclepiadae were. Its difficulty is typical of several

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