Hippocrates. Volume II [electronic resource] / edited and translated by Paul Potter.

Author: Hippocrates, author.

ImprintCambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2023.

Description1 online resource (pages cm)

Note:Prognostic -- Regimen in acute diseases -- Sacred disease. -- The art -- Breaths -- Law -- Decorum -- Dentition.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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