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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EPIDEMICS I AND III

EPIDEMICS III

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moist, frothy, which came from the head, were abundant. But by far the worst symptom that attended both these cases and the others was the distaste for food, as has been mentioned. They had no relish either for drink with nourishment, but they remained entirely without thirst. Heaviness in the body. Coma. In most of them there was swelling, which developed into dropsy. Shivering fits and delirium near death.

PART 14

XIV. The physical characteristics of the consumptives were :--skin smooth, whitish, lentil-coloured, reddish ; bright eyes ;
It seems impossible to decide whether the adjective χαροπός refers here to the brightness of the eyes or to their colour (blue or grey).
a leucophlegmatic
See General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. "Bitter bile" was the same as that sometimes called "yellow."
condition ; shoulder-blades projecting like wings. Women too so.
This brief phrase seems to mean that the same characteristics marked consumptive women as consumptive men.
As to those with a melancholic
See General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. "Bitter bile" was the same as that sometimes called "yellow."
or a rather sanguine
See General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. "Bitter bile" was the same as that sometimes called "yellow."
complexion, they were attacked by ardent fevers, phrenitis and dysenteric troubles. Tenesmus affected young, phlegmatic
See General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. "Bitter bile" was the same as that sometimes called "yellow."
people ; the chronic diarrhoea and acrid, greasy stools affected persons of a bilious
See General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. "Bitter bile" was the same as that sometimes called "yellow."
temperament.

PART 15

XV. In all the cases described spring was the worst enemy, and caused the most deaths ; summer was the most favourable season, in which fewest died. In autumn and during the season of the Pleiades, on the other hand, there were again deaths, usually on the fourth day. And it seems to me natural that the coming on of summer should have been helpful. For the coming on of winter resolves the diseases of summer, and the coming on of summer removes those of winter. And yet in