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Hippocrates.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hippocrates, author.
- Heraclitus, of Ephesus, author.
- Series:
- Loeb classical library ; 147-150, 472-473, 477, 482, 509, 520.
- Loeb Classical Library ; 147-150, 472-473, 477, 482, 509, 520
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Greek and Roman.
- Medicine.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : line illustrations, map.
- Other Title:
- Digital Loeb.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- Hippocrates, said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BCE, learned medicine and philosophy; travelled widely as a medical doctor and teacher; was consulted by King Perdiccas of Macedon and Artaxerxes of Persia; and died perhaps at Larissa. Apparently he rejected superstition in favour of inductive reasoning and the study of real medicine as subject to natural laws, in general and in individual people as patients for treatment by medicines and surgery. Of the roughly 70 works in the Hippocratic Collection," many are not by Hippocrates; even the famous oath may not be his. But he was undeniably the "Father of Medicine."
- Contents:
- v. I. Ancient medicine. Airs, waters, places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The oath. Precepts. Nutriment / with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones
- v. II. Prognostic. Regimen in acute diseases. The sacred disease. The art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Physician (Ch. 1). Dentition / with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones
- v. III. On wounds in the head. In the surgery. On fractures. On joints. Mochlicon / with an English translation by E.T. Withington
- v. IV. Nature of man. Regimen in health. Humours. Aphorisms. Regimen 1-3. Dreams. Heracleitus: On the universe / with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones
- v. V. Affections. Diseases 1. Diseases 2 / with an English translation by Paul Potter
- v. VI. Diseases 3. Internal affections. Regimen in acute diseases / with an English translation by Paul Potter
- v. VII. Epidemics 2, 4-7 / with an English translation by Wesley D. Smith
- v. VIII. Places in man. glands. Fleshes. Prorrhetic 1-2. Physician. Use of liquids. Ulcers. Haemorrhoids and fistulas / edited and translated by Paul Potter
- v. IX. Coan prenotions. Anatomical and minor clinical writings / edited and translated by Paul Potter
- v. X. Generation. Nature of the child. Diseases 4. Nature of women and barrenness / edited and translated by Paul Potter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hippocrates. Works.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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