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"This is the second volume in the Loeb Classical Library's complete edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. It contains eight treatises respectively treating the prediction of acute diseases; the proper diet against them; the natural causes of epilepsy; medicine's status as an art; the role of air in health; the ideal medical education; the components of medical wisdom; and the nursing of infants. This Loeb edition replaces the original by W. H. S. Jones. The works available in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Hippocrates are: Volume I: Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Precepts. Nutriment. Volume II: Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Dentition. Volume III: On Wounds in the Head. In the Surgery. On Fractures. On Joints. Mochlicon. Volume IV: Nature of Man. Regimen in Health. Humours. Aphorisms. Regimen 1-3. Dreams. Volume V: Affections. Diseases 1-2. Volume VI: Diseases 3. Internal Affections. Regimen in Acute Diseases. Volume VII: Epidemics 2 and 4-7. Volume VIII: Places in Man. Glands. Fleshes. Prorrhetic 1-2. Physician. Use of Liquids. Ulcers. Haemorrhoids and Fistulas. Volume IX: Anatomy. Nature of Bones. Heart. Eight Months' Child. Coan Prenotions. Crises. Critical Days. Superfetation. Girls. Excision of the Fetus. Sight. Volume X: Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Barrenness. Volume XI: Diseases of Women 1-2"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Prognostic
• Regimen in acute diseases
• Sacred disease.
• The art
• Breaths
• Law
• Decorum
• Dentition.

Author/Creator:

Hippocrates , author

Contributors:

Potter, Paul, 1944- , editor, translator

Languages:

English
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Language Notes:

Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.

Main Work:

Hippocrates [by Hippocrates] > Volume II

Included Works:

Prognostics [by Hippocrates] (English; (Potter))

Prognostics [by Hippocrates] (Greek; (Potter))

De victus ratione in morbis acutis [by Hippocrates] (English; (Potter))

De victus ratione in morbis acutis [by Hippocrates] (Greek; (Potter))

De morbo sacro [by Hippocrates] (English; (Potter))

De morbo sacro [by Hippocrates] (Greek; (Potter))

Peri technēs [by Hippocrates] (English; (Potter))

Peri technēs [by Hippocrates] (Greek; (Potter))

De flatibus [by Hippocrates] (English; (Potter))

De flatibus [by Hippocrates] (Greek; (Potter))

Hippocratis Lex [by Hippocrates] (English; (Potter))

Hippocratis Lex [by Hippocrates] (Greek; (Potter))

De decente habitu [by Hippocrates] (English; (Potter))

De decente habitu [by Hippocrates] (Greek; (Potter))

De dentitione [by Hippocrates] (English; (Potter))

De dentitione [by Hippocrates] (Greek; (Potter))

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Hippocrates [Hippocrates] > Volume II (ISBN 9780674997585; LCCN 2023001177; OCLC Number 1385506024)

Related Series:

Works [of Hippocrates] (Complete); [volume] 2 (English; (Loeb classical library))

Works [of Hippocrates] (Complete); [volume] 2 (Greek; (Loeb classical library))

Loeb classical library; [volume] 148

Subjects:

Medicine, Greek and Roman

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

R126 .H4 2023eb

ISBNs:

9780674997585 (cloth) [Invalid]
0674997581 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

910938609

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: hup0000247