HIPPOCRATE - Fiction & Literature 1

Extrait: « Je jure par Apollon, médecin, par Asclépios, par Hygie et Panacée, par tous les Dieux et toutes les Déesses, les prenant à témoin, de remplir, selon ma capacité et mon jugement, ce sermen……続きを見る

Whoever having undertaken to speak or write on Medicine, have first laid down for Themselves some hypoThesis to Their argument, such as hot, or cold, or moist, or dry, or whatever else They choose (……続きを見る

Ptisan, then, appears to me to be justly preferred before all the Other preparations from grain in these diseases, and I commend those who made this choice, for the mucilage of it is smooth, consist……続きを見る

The human foot is composed of several small bones like the hand. These bones therefore are scarcely ever broken, unless the skin at the same time be wounded by some sharp and heavy body. The treatme……続きを見る

The disease of the hemorrhoids is formed in this way: if bile or phlegm be determined to the veins in the rectum, it heats the blood in the veins; and these veins becoming heated attract blood from ……続きを見る

Men’s heads are by no means all like to one another, nor are the sutures of the head of all men constructed in the same form. Thus, whoever has a prominence in the anterior part of the head (by prom……続きを見る

Fistulae are produced by contusions and tubercles, and they are also occasioned by rowing, on horseback, when blood accumulates in the nates near the anus. For, having become putrid, it spreads to t……続きを見る

We must avoid wetting all sorts of ulcers except with wine, unless The ulcer be situated in a joint. For, The dry is nearer to The sound, and The wet to The unsound, since an ulcer is wet, but a sou……続きを見る

It is thus with regard to The disease called Sacred: it appears to me to be nowise more divine nor more sacred than Other diseases, but has a natural cause from The originates like Other affections.……続きを見る

in THASUS, about The autumn equinox, and under The Pleiades, The rains were abundant, constant, and soft, with souTherly winds; The winter souTherly, The norTherly winds faint, droughts; on The whol……続きを見る

Medicine is of all The Arts The most noble; but, not withstanding, owing to The ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of Them, it is at present far b……続きを見る

With regard to The construction of bones, The bones and joints of The fingers are simple, The bones of The hand and foot are numerous, and articulated in various ways; The uppermost are The largest;……続きを見る

It ppears to me a most excellent thing for The physician to cultivate Prognosis; for by foreseeing and foretelling, in The presence of The sick, The present, The past, and The future, and explaining……続きを見る

Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed thus: in The first place to consider The seasons of The year, and what effects each of Them produces for They are not at all alike, bu……続きを見る