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

5. THE COMMENTATORS AND OTHER ANCIENT AUTHORITIES.

[p. xxxvii]

Ἀριστοκλῆσ2 καὶ Ἀριστέασ2 οἱ ̔Πόδιοι. ἔτι δὲ Ἀρίς1ταρχοσ2 καὶ μετὰ πάντας2 Ἀντίγονος2 καὶ Δίδυμος2 οἱ Ἀλεξανδρεῖς2.--pp. 4, 5 (Nachmanson).

A good account of the commentators is given by Littré, vol. I., pp. 83 foll. Herophilus (about 300 B.C.) appears to have been the first ; Bacchius his pupil edited Epidemics III., wrote notes on three other Hippocratic works, and compiled a glossary. A great number of short fragments of the works of Bacchius still survive. The most celebrated commentator, a medical man as well as a scholar, was Heraclides of Tarentum, who lived rather later than Bacchius.

Erotian in his introduction gives the following list of Hippocratic works :--

σημειωτικὰ μὲν οὖν ἐς1τι ταῦτα: Προγνωστικόν, Προρρητικὸν ά καὶ β́ (ὡς2 οὐκ ἔς1τιν Ἱπποκράτους2, ἐν ἄλλοις2 δείξομεν), Περὶ χυμῶν. αἰτιολογικὰ δὲ καὶ φυσικά: Περὶ φυσῶν, Περὶ φύς1εωσ2 ἀνθρώπου, Περὶ ἱερᾶς2 νόσου, Περὶ φύς1εωσ2 παιδίου, Περὶ τόπων καὶ ὡρῶν. θεραπευτικὰ δέ: τῶν μὲν εἰς2 χειρουργίαν ἀνηκόντων: Περὶ ἀγμῶν, Περὶ ἄρθρων, Περὶ ἑλκῶν, Περὶ τραυμάτων καὶ βελῶν, Περὶ τῶν ἐν κεφαλῆ τραυμάτων, Κατὰ ἰητρεῖον, Μοχλικόν, Περὶ αἱμορροΐδων καὶ συρίγγων. εἰς2 δίαιταν: Περὶ νούσων ά β̓, Περὶ πτισάνησ2, Περὶ τόπων τῶν κατὰ ἄνθρωπον, Γυναικείων ά β́, Περὶ τροφῆς2, Περὶ ἀφόρων, Περὶ ὑδάτων. ἐπίμικτα δέ ἐς1τι ταῦτα: Ἀφορισμοί, Ἐπιδημίαι ζ. τῶν δ' εἰς2 τὸν περὶ τέχνης2 τεινόντων λόγον: Ὅρκος2, Νόμος2, Περὶ τέχνης2, Περὶ ἀρχαίας2 ἰατρικῆς2. Πρεσβευτικὸσ2 γὰρ καὶ Ἐπιβώμιος2 φιλόπατριν μᾶλλον ἢ ἰατρὸν ἐμφαίνουσι τὸν ἄνδρα.--p. 9 (Nachmanson).

The actual glossary, however, refers to more works than these, as will appear from the following table.