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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GENERAL INTRODUCTION

9. CHIEF DISEASES MENTIONED IN THE HIPPOCRATIC COLLECTION.

[p. lvi]

medical writings in the Hippocratic collection are occupied almost entirely with endemic disease and do not describe plagues, not even the great plague at Athens. There is no mention of smallpox or measles ; no certain reference occurs to diphtheria, scarlet fever, bubonic plague or syphilis. It is extremely doubtful whether typhoid was present in Greece, for although it is similar to severe cases of καῦσος and φρενῖτις, the latter were certainly in most cases pernicious malaria, which is often so like typhoid that only the microscope can distinguish them. It is expressly stated by pseudo-Aristotle
Problems, VII. 8.
that fevers were not infectious, and it is difficult to reconcile this statement with the prevalence of typhoid. The question must be left open, as the evidence is not clear enough to warrant a confident decision.
See Stéphanos, La Gréce, p 502.

Colds, "with and without fever,"
See Epidemics IV., Littré V., p. 149.
were common enough in ancient times, but whether influenza prevailed cannot be stated for certain. Its all too frequent result, pneumonia, was indeed well known, but it is puzzling that in the description of epidemic cough at Perinthus,
Epidemics VI., Littré, pp. 331-337.
the nearest approach to an influenza wave in the Hippocratic collection, it is expressly stated that relapses into pneumonia were rare.
Loc. cit., p. 333.

Consumption (φθίσις) is one of the diseases most frequently mentioned in the Corpus, and it is remarkable that in the very passage where we are told