The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Volume I

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