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

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sleep ; stools copious and unfavourable throughout ; urine scanty, thin and blackish ; extremities cold and rather livid.

Sixth day. Same symptoms.

Seventh day. Death.

CASE XII

A woman who lay sick by the Liars' Market, after giving birth in a first and painful delivery to a male child, was seized with fever. From the very first there was thirst, nausea, slight pain at the stomach, dry tongue, bowels disordered with thin and scanty discharges, no sleep.

Second day. Slight rigor ; acute fever ; slight, cold sweating around the head.

Third day. In pain ; crude, thin, copious discharges from the bowels.

Fourth day. Rigor ; general exacerbation ; sleepless.

Fifth day. In pain.

Sixth day. The same symptoms ; copious, fluid discharges from the bowels.

Seventh day. Rigor ; acute fever ; thirst ; much tossing ; towards evening cold sweat all over ; chill ; extremities cold, and would not be warmed. At night she again had a rigor ; the extremities would not be warmed ; no sleep ; slight delirium, but quickly was rational again.

Eighth day. About mid-day recovered her heat ; thirst ; coma ; nausea ; vomited bilious, scanty, yellowish matters. An uncomfortable night ; no sleep ; unconsciously passed a copious discharge of urine.