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.
General
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Loeb Classical Library |
| Release date: |
December 2023 |
| Authors: |
Hippocrates
|
| Editors: |
Paul Potter
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| Dimensions: |
162 x 108mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
432 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-99758-5 |
| Subtitles: |
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-674-99758-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780674997585 |
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