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Hippocratic Writings

EditorG. E. R. Lloyd
LanguageEnglish
Year1983
PublisherPenguin
CountryUnited Kingdom
Pages380
ISBN9780140444513
Hippocratic Writings

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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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Preface 7 Introduction 9 MEDICINE translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann 61 Translators' Introduction 63 The Oath 67 The Canon 68 Tradition in Medicine 70 Epidemics, Book I 87 Epidemics, Book III 113 The Science of Medicine 139 Airs, Waters, Places 148 Prognosis 170 Regimen in Acute Diseases 186 Aphorisms 206 The Sacred Disease 237 Dreams (Regimen IV) 252 The Nature of Man 260 A Regimen for Health 272 SURGERY translated by E. T. Withington 277 Fractures 279 EMBRYOLOGY AND ANATOMY translated by I. M. Lonie 315 The Seed and The Nature of the Child 317 The Heart 347 Note on the Translation of Some Hippocratic Terms 352 Bibliography 354 Glossary of Names 357 Indices 361

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