Medical Writings · Hippocrates · c. 430-350 BCE
The Genuine Works of Hippocrates
TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK
WITH
A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE AND ANNOTATIONS
BY
FRANCIS ADAMS, LL.D.
SURGEON
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I
NEW YORK WILLIAM WOOD AND COMPANY 56 & 58 LAFAYETTE PLACE 1886
The Publishers’ Book Composition and Electrotyping Co., 157 and 159 William St., New York.
Contents of Vol. I
PAGE
Preliminary Discourse
1
Sect. I.—On the Origin of Grecian Medicine
3
Sketch of the Life of Hippocrates
8
Sect. II.—Disquisition on the Authenticity of the different Treatises which have been attributed to Hippocrates
20
Sect. III.—On the Physical Philosophy of the Ancients, and more especially their Doctrines with regard to the Elements
107
The Pythagoreans
108
The Platonists
110
The Peripatetics
113
The Stoics
115
The Epicureans
116
On Ancient Medicine
127
The Argument
129
The Work
132
On Airs, Waters, and Places
147
The Argument
149
The Work
156
On the Prognostics
188
The Argument
187
The Work
194
Appendix to the Book of Prognostics
214
On Regimen in Acute Diseases
227
The Argument
227
The Work
234
Appendix to the work on Regimen in Acute Diseases
254
The Argument
254
The Work
260
First and Third Books of the Epidemics
281
Book I.—The Argument
283
The Work
293
Book III.—The Argument
318
The Work
323
On Injuries of the Head
353
The Argument
335
The Work
370
Plates I., II., III., With Description.