Hippocratic Writings

Description

This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb fractures, and the section called The Nature of Man describes the physiological theories of the time. The book ends with a discussion of embryology and a brief anatomical description of the heart.

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Introduction
Medicine
Translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann

Translators’ Introduction
The Oath
The Canon
Tradition in Medicine
Epidemics, Book I
Epidemics, Book III
The Science of Medicine
Airs, Waters, Places
Prognosis
Regimen in Acute Diseases
Aphorisms
The Sacred Disease
Dreams (Regimen IV)
The Nature of Man
A Regimen for Health
Surgery
Translated by E. T. Withington

Fractures
Embryology and Anatomy
Translated by I. M. Lonie

The Seed and The Nature of the Child
The Heart
Notes on the Translation of Some Hippocratic Terms
Bibliography
Glossary of Names
Indices

Hippocrates (460 BC-377 BC) became known as the founder of medicine and was regarded as the greatest physician of his time. He based his medical practice on observations and on the study of the human body. He founded a medical school on the island of Kos, Greece and began teaching his ideas. He soon developed an Oath of Medical Ethics for physicians to follow; this Oath is taken by physicians today as they begin their medical practice.GB