This is the second volume in the Loeb Classical Librarys 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; medicines 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 13. Dreams.
Volume V: Affections. Diseases 12.
Volume VI: Diseases 3. Internal Affections. Regimen in Acute Diseases.
Volume VII: Epidemics 2 and 47.
Volume VIII: Places in Man. Glands. Fleshes. Prorrhetic 12. 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 12.
Volume II of the Loeb Hippocrates presents eight works by or attributed to the Father of Medicine that illustrate the value of medical theory and clinical methods, and propose a new model of medical education. Included are
Prognostic,
Regimen in Acute Diseases,
The Sacred Disease,
The Art,
Breaths,
Law,
Decorum, and
Dentition.
