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Hippocrates, Volume II: Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. the Sacred Disease. the Art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Dentition

Hippocrates, Volume II: Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. the Sacred Disease. the Art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Dentition

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Series: Loeb Classical Library

Medical ReferenceLiterary CriticismAncient Greece

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ISBN10: 0674997581
ISBN13: 9780674997585
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Dec 12 2023
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.80 Width: 4.50 Depth: 6.50
Language: English

The definitive English edition of the Father of Medicine.

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. The first two treatises, Prognostic and Regimen in Acute Diseases, are manuals respectively on how to predict the course and outcome of acute diseases and how to apply appropriate dietetic measures. Sacred Disease, The Art, and Breaths are rhetorically polished monographs, each arguing in favor of a specific hypothesis: that sacred disease is a misnomer; that medicine is a legitimate art; and that air plays important roles in life and health. Law sketches a new model of medical education; Decorum summarizes a public address on the components of medical wisdom; and Dentition collects pediatric aphorisms dealing mainly with the nursing of infants and ulcerations of their tonsils, uvula, and throat.

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.

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