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Volume IV: Heracleitus: On the Universe

Door Hippocrates

Categorie
Klassieke Oudheid
Boeknummer
#422227-YG1
Titel
Volume IV: Heracleitus: On the Universe
Auteur
Hippocrates
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Cambridge MA/London : Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1998
ISBN10
0674991664
ISBN13
9780674991668
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original gilt lettered green cloth, dust jacket, translated by W.H.S. Jones, LVIII,522,(3) pages, text in Greek and English, reprinted, 8vo. Loeb Classical Library 150.
Samenvatting
Hippocrates, said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BCE, learned medicine and philosophy; travelled widely as a medical doctor and teacher; was consulted by King Perdiccas of Macedon and Artaxerxes of Persia; and died perhaps at Larissa. Apparently he rejected superstition in favour of inductive reasoning and the study of real medicine as subject to natural laws, in general and in individual people as patients for treatment by medicines and surgery. Of the roughly 70 works in the 'Hippocratic Collection' many are not by Hippocrates; even the famous oath may not be his. But he was undeniably the 'Father of Medicine'. The works available in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Hippocrates are the following. Volume I: Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oat... (Lees verder)h. 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 I-II. Physician. Use of Liquids. Ulcers. Haemorrhoids and Fistulas. Volume IV also contains the fragments of Heracleitus, On the Universe.
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Conditie
Goed — Slightly foxed on cut.
Prijs
€ 20,00

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