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

Hippocrates of history and tradition was the author of such and such a treatise.

Galen maintains that Plato refers to the treatise Nature of Man. I believe that few readers of the latter will notice any striking resemblances between this work
To my mind the closest resemblances are in Chapters VII and VIII, which deal with the relations between the "four humours" and the four seasons.
and the doctrine outlined by Plato. More plausible is the view of Littré, that Plato refers to Chapter XX of Ancient Medicine, which contains the following passage :--

ἐπεὶ τοῦτό γε μοι δοκεῖ ἀναγκαῖον εἶναι παντὶ ἰητρῷ περὶ φύς1ιοσ2 εἰδέναι, καὶ πάνυ σπουδάσαι ὡς2 εἴς1εται, εἴπερ τι μέλλει τῶν δεόντων ποιήσειν, ὅ τί τέ ἐς1τιν ἄνθρωπος2 πρὸς2 τὰ ἐς1θιόμενά τε καὶ πινόμενα, καὶ ὅ τι πρὸς2 τὰ ἄλλα ἐπιτηδεύματα, καὶ ὅ τι ἀφ' ἑκάς1του ἑκάς1τῳ συμβήσεται.

Here the resemblance is closer--close enough to show that the author of Ancient Medicine, if he be not the Hippocrates of history, at least held views similar to his. And here the question must be left. Few would maintain with Littré that the resemblance between the two passages is so striking that they must be connected ; few again would deny that Plato was thinking of Ancient Medicine. Ignorance and uncertainty seem to be the final result of most of the interesting problems presented by the Hippocratic collection.

5. THE COMMENTATORS AND OTHER ANCIENT AUTHORITIES.

About the time of Nero a glossary of unusual Hippocratic terms was written by Erotian, which

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