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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PREFACE
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the text permits, introducing as few novelties of my own as possible, and to add such comment as may bring out the permanent value of the various treatises. They are no longer useful as text-books, but all of us, whether medical or lay, may learn a lesson from the devotion to truth which marked the school of Cos, and from the blunders committed by theorizers who sought a short cut to knowledge without the labour of patient observation and careful experiment.

The present volume has been in preparation since 1910, and the actual writing has occupied all my leisure for the past three years. The time would have been longer, had it not been for the great kindness of Dr. E. T. Withington, whose name will probably appear on the title-page of one of the succeeding volumes.

My thanks are also due to the Rev. H. J. Chaytor for his helpful criticisms.

W. H. S. JONES.