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
 [p. xlvi]

I do not think that it has been noticed what an interesting parallel is afforded by the term "Homeridae." A family of poets tracing their descent from Homer finally could give their name to any public reciter of the Homeric poems.
See e.g. Pindar, Nemeans II. 1.


8. THE DOCTRINE OF HUMOURS.

The doctrine of the humours probably had its origin
It is supposed by some that the humoral pathology originated in Egypt. See Sir Clifford Allbutt, Greek Medicine in Rome, p. 133.
in superficial deductions from obvious facts of physiology, but it was strongly coloured by philosophic speculation, in particular by the doctrine of opposites. Indeed it is impossible to keep distinct the various influences which acted and reacted upon one another in the spheres of philosophy and medicine; only the main tendencies can be clearly distinguished.

Even the most superficial observer must notice (a) that the animal body requires air, fluid, and solid food; (b) that too great heat and cold are fatal to life, and that very many diseases are attended by fever; (c) that fluid is a necessary factor in digestion;
See Nutriment LV.: ὑγρασίη τροφῆς ὄχημα. See also Disenses IV., Littré VII. 568: τὸ σῶμα . . . ἀπὸ τῶν βρωτῶν καὶ τῶν ποτῶν τῆς ἰκμάδος ἐπαυρίσκεται.
(d) that blood is in a peculiar way connected with life and health.

These simple observations were reinforced by the speculations of philosophers, particularly when philosophy took a biological or physiological turn, and