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

2. The Hippocratic Collection

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ordinary fevers, with their periods, paroxysms and crises. At the end come fourteen clinical histories.

I have already mentioned a pre-Hippocratic group and a Hippocratic group, and it has been noticed that the main task of Greek medicine was to free science from superstition and from philosophic hypotheses. The Corpus contains two polemical works, On Epilepsy and Ancient Medicine, which attack respectively the " divine " origin of disease and the intrusion into medicine of the hypothetical speculation of philosophers.

There is another group of works which, while they do not display to any marked degree the Hippocratic characteristics, are nevertheless practical handbooks of medicine, physiology or anatomy. The list is a long one, and includes works by different authors and of different schools :--

The Surgery.

The Heart.

Places in Man.

Glands.

Anatomy.

Nature of the Bones.

Sight.

Dentition.

Diseases I.

Diseases II. and III.
Shows influence of Cnidian school. So possibly do other books.

Affections.
Shows influence of Cnidian school. So possibly do other books.

Internal Affections.
Shows influence of Cnidian school. So possibly do other books.

Sores.

Fistulae.

Hemorrhoids.