The Genuine Works of Hippocrates

The Genuine Works of Hippocrates
By Hippocrates
Edited by: Charles Darwin Adams (trans.)

New York Dover 1868


Digital Hippocrates Collection Table of Contents



The Oath

On Ancient Medicine
   PART 1
   PART 2
   PART 3
   PART 4
   PART 5
   PART 6
   PART 7
   PART 8
   PART 9
   PART 10
   PART 11
   PART 12
   PART 13
   PART 14
   PART 15
   PART 16
   PART 17
   PART 18
   PART 19
   PART 20
   PART 21
   PART 22
   PART 23
   PART 24

On Airs, Waters, and Places
   PART 1
   PART 2
   PART 3
   PART 4
   PART 5
   PART 6
   PART 7
   PART 8
   PART 9
   PART 10
   PART 11
   PART 12
   PART 13
   PART 14
   PART 15
   PART 16
   PART 17
   PART 18
   PART 19
   PART 20
   PART 21
   PART 22
   PART 23
   PART 24

The Book of Prognostics
   PART 1
   PART 2
   PART 3
   PART 4
   PART 5
   PART 6
   PART 7
   PART 8
   PART 9
   PART 10
   PART 11
   PART 12
   PART 13
   PART 14
   PART 15
   PART 16
   PART 17
   PART 18
   PART 19
   PART 20
   PART 21
   PART 22
   PART 23
   PART 24
   PART 25

On Regimen in Acute Diseases
   PART 1
   PART 2
   PART 3
   PART 4
   PART 5
   PART 6
   PART 7
   PART 8
   PART 9
   PART 10
   PART 11
   PART 12
   PART 13
   PART 14
   PART 15
   PART 16
   PART 17
   PART 18
   APPENDIX

Of the Epidemics
   BOOK I
   BOOK III

On Injuries of the Head
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12
   Part 13
   Part 14
   Part 15
   Part 16
   Part 17
   Part 18
   Part 19
   Part 20
   Part 21

On the Surgery
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12
   Part 13
   Part 14
   Part 15
   Part 16
   Part 17
   Part 18
   Part 19
   Part 20
   Part 21
   Part 22
   Part 23
   Part 24
   Part 25

On Fractures
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12
   Part 13
   Part 14
   Part 15
   Part 16
   Part 17
   Part 18
   Part 18
   Part 20
   Part 21
   Part 22
   Part 23
   Part 24
   Part 25
   Part 26
   Part 27
   Part 28
   Part 29
   Part 30
   Part 31
   Part 31a
   Part 32
   Part 33
   Part 34
   Part 35
   Part 36
   Part 37
   Part 38
   Part 39
   Part 40
   Part 41
   Part 42
   Part 43
   Part 44
   Part 45
   Part 46
   Part 47
   Part 48

On the Articulations
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12
   Part 13
   Part 14
   Part 15
   Part 16
   Part 17
   Part 18
   Part 19
   Part 20
   Part 21
   Part 22
   Part 23
   Part 24
   Part 25
   Part 26
   Part 27
   Part 28
   Part 29
   Part 30
   Part 31
   Part 32
   Part 33
   Part 34
   Part 35
   Part 36
   Part 37
   Part 38
   Part 39
   Part 40
   Part 41
   Part 42
   Part 43
   Part 44
   Part 45
   Part 46
   Part 47
   Part 48
   Part 49
   Part 50
   Part 51
   Part 52
   Part 53
   Part 54
   Part 55
   Part 56
   Part 57
   Part 58
   Part 59
   Part 60
   Part 61
   Part 62
   Part 63
   Part 64
   Part 65
   Part 66
   Part 67
   Part 68
   Part 69
   Part 70
   Part 71
   Part 72
   Part 73
   Part 74
   Part 75
   Part 76
   Part 77
   Part 78
   Part 79
   Part 80
   Part 81
   Part 82
   Part 83
   Part 84
   Part 85
   Part 86
   Part 87

Mochlicus or Instruments of Reduction
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12
   Part 13
   Part 14
   Part 15
   Part 16
   Part 17
   Part 18
   Part 19
   Part 20
   Part 21
   Part 22
   Part 23
   Part 24
   Part 25
   Part 26
   Part 27
   Part 28
   Part 29
   Part 30
   Part 31
   Part 32
   Part 33
   Part 34
   Part 35
   Part 36
   Part 37
   Part 38
   Part 39
   Part 40
   Part 41
   Part 42

Aphorisms
   SECTION I
   SECTION II
   SECTION III
   SECTION IV
   SECTION V
   SECTION VI
   SECTION VII

The Law
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5

On Ulcers
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12
   Part 13
   Part 14
   Part 15
   Part 16
   Part 17

On Fistulae
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7
   Part 8
   Part 9
   Part 10
   Part 11
   Part 12

On Hemorrhoids
   Part 1
   Part 2
   Part 3
   Part 4
   Part 5
   Part 6
   Part 7

On the Sacred Disease


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Aphorisms

SECTION VI

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Part 31

Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking pure wine, or the bath, or a fomentation, or venesection, or purging.


Part 32

Persons whose speech has become impaired are likely to be seized with chronic diarrhoea.


Part 33

Persons having acid eructations are not very apt to be seized with pleurisy.


Part 34

Persons who have become bald are not subject to large varices; but should varices supervene upon persons who are bald, their hair again grows thick.


Part 35

Hiccup supervening in dropsical cases is bad.


Part 36

Venesection cures dysuria; open the internal veins of the arm.


Part 37

It is a good symptom when swelling on the outside of the neck seizes a person very ill of quinsy, for the disease is turned outwardly.


Part 38

It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for, if treated, the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.


Part 39

Convulsions take place either from repletion or depletion; and so it is with hiccup.


Part 40

When pains, without inflammation, occur about the hypochondria, in such cases, fever supervening removes the pain.


Part 41

When pus formed anywhere in the body does not point, this is owing to the thickness of the part.


Part 42

In cases of jaundice, it is a bad symptom when the liver becomes indurated.


Part 43

When persons having large spleens are seized with dysentery, and if the dysentery pass into a chronic state, either dropsy or lientery supervenes, and they die.


Part 44

When ileus comes on in a case of strangury, they prove fatal in seven days, unless, fever supervening, there be a copious discharge of urine.


Part 45

When ulcers continue open for a year or upward, there must necessarily be exfoliation of bone, and the cicatrices are hollow.


Part 46

Such persons as become hump-backed from asthma or cough before puberty, die.