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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PRECEPTS

INTRODUCTION

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early authorship, we need conclude no more than that Chrysippus knew the originals from which the compilation was made--indeed he must have been well acquainted with the Epicurean original of Chapters I and II. There is nothing in the evidence to prevent our taking Precepts to be a cento from good sources made by a late writer not perfectly familiar with Greek. Somehow it became incorporated in a collection of Hippocratic writings, probably a little-known one, as none of the ancient " lists " of Hippocratic works includes Precepts. There was no generally accepted canon, and a work of unknown or uncertain authorship might easily find its way into the Hippocratic collection in one or other of the great libraries.

Although linguistic difficulties obscure the details, the reader will be interested in the picture of medical practice in antiquity. The " late-learner " covering up his mistakes in a flood of medical jargon will suggest the doctors of Moliére. The public lectures, with quotations from poetry, are the exact counterpart of modern advertisements of patent medicines.

MSS. AND EDITIONS.

Precepts is found in several of the Paris manuscripts and in M.
There is no good apparatus criticus. I have tried to infer from Littré's " vulgate " and Ermerins' text what is the reading of the majority of the manuscripts, and it is generally this reading which I denote by " MSS." Only more careful examination of the actual manuscripts can show how far I am justified in so doing.
There have been so far as I know no separate editions and no translations into English.