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

CASE III

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Tenth day. Symptoms about the same.

Eleventh day. Quite rational ; no fever ; slept, urine thin about the time of the crisis.

The patient remained free from fever for two days, relapsed on the fourteenth day, and immediately had no sleep at night and was completely delirious.

Fifteenth day. Urine muddy, like that which has been stirred up after settling ; acute fever ; completely delirious ; no sleep ; pain in knees and legs. On the application of a suppository, black, solid motions were passed.

Sixteenth day. Urine thin, with a cloudy substance floating in it ; delirium.

Seventeenth day. Extremities cold in the early morning ; would wrap himself up ; acute fever ; sweated all over ; was relieved ; more rational ; some fever ; thirst ; vomited bilious matters, yellow and scanty ; solid motions from the bowels ; after a while they became black, scanty and thin ; urine thin, and not of a good colour.

Eighteenth day. Was not rational ; comatose.

Nineteenth day. The same symptoms.

Twentieth day. Slept ; completely rational ; sweated ; no fever ; no thirst ; urine thin.

Twenty-first day. Slightly delirious ; rather thirsty ; pain in the hypochondrium and throbbing about the navel continuously.

Twenty-fourth day. Sediment in urine ; completely rational.

Twenty-seventh day. Pain in the right hip, but in other respects very comfortable ; sediment in the urine.

About the twenty-ninth day pain in the right eye ; urine thin.