This is the first 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. Here, Paul Potter presents the Greek
text with facing English translation of five treatises that showcase the
range of Hippocratic theory, philosophy, and practice: Ancient
Medicine; Airs, Waters, Places; Epidemics 1 and 3; Precepts; and
Nutriment. Also included is the famous Hippocratic Oath.
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. Physician (Ch. 1). 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.
