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

This electronic edition is funded by the National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division. This text has been proofread to a high degree of accuracy. It was converted to electronic form using Data Entry.
(Medical Information Disclaimer: It is not the intention of NLM to provide specific medical advice but rather to provide users with information to better understand their health and their diagnosed disorders. Specific medical advice will not be provided, and NLM urges you to consult with a qualified physician for diagnosis and for answers to your personal questions.)

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

9. CHIEF DISEASES MENTIONED IN THE HIPPOCRATIC COLLECTION.

[p. lvii]

that fevers are not infectious it is also stated that consumption is so. To consumption are added "ophthalmias," which term will therefore include all contagious inflammations of the eyes.
Pseudo-Aristotle Problems VII. 8 : διὰ τί ἀπὸ φθίσεως καὶ ὀφθαλμίας καὶ ψώρας οἱ πλησιάζοντες ἁλίς1κονται: ὰπὸ δὲ ὕδρωπος καὶ πυρετῶν καὶ ἀποπληξίας οὐχ ἁλίς1κονται, οὐδὲ τῶν ἄλλων ;

The greatest plague of the Greek and of the ancient world generally was malaria, both mild and malignant, both intermittent and remittent.

The intermittents (διαλείποντες πνρετοί) are :--

ἀμφημερινὸς πυρετός (quotidians)

τριταῖος πυρετός (tertians)

τεταρταῖος πυρετός (quartans)
See e.g. Epidemics I. XXIV., where quintans, septans and nonans also are mentioned. In the fourth century the existence of these fevers was denied.

The remittents (often συνεχεῖς πυρετοί) included :--

καῦσος, so called because of the intense heat felt by the patient, a remittent tertian often mentioned in the Corpus.

φρενῖτις, characterized by pain in the hypochondria and by delirium. It generally had a tertian periodicity.

λήθαργος, characterized by irresistible coma. It bore a strong likeness to what is now known as the comatose form of pernicious malaria.

ἡμιτριταῖος, semitertian, was pernicious remittent malaria with tertian periodicity.
I have discussed these diseases more fully in my Malaria and Greek History, pp. 63-68.

τῦφος or τῖφος, of which five different kinds are mentioned in the Cnidian treatise περὶ τῶν ἐντὸς παθῶν