Hippocrates on airs, waters and places / the received Greek text of Littré, with Latin, French, and English translations by eminent scholars.

  • Hippocrates
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1881
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Credit: Hippocrates on airs, waters and places / the received Greek text of Littré, with Latin, French, and English translations by eminent scholars. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I. cas partimlier; il saura le mieux coyisei-ver lasante, el il nepratiq^iera jias avec un mediocre succes I'art de lamedecine. 8. Gelui qui ohjederait que ce sont la des speculations meteorologiqu,es, comprendra, s'il change d'avis, que Vastronomie,^ loin d'etre d'une petite utility au medecin, lui importe heaucowp; car I'etat des organes digestifs change avec les saisons. (3.) Je vais expUquer en detail comvieni il faut observer et approfondir chacun des points dent il a, ete question. II. 9. SUPF0S0N8 vne ville ex- fosee aux vents chauds ; ce sont ceux qui sovffient entre le lever d'hiver du soleil et le coucher d'hiver; ouverte a ces vents, elle se trouve a I'ahri de ceux du nord. Dans cette localite les eaux seront ahondantes, sau- mdtres, peu profondes, et par conse- quent chaudes I'ete et fro ides I'hiver. [De tout ce morceau du texte grec, enferme entre deux crochets, la pre- miere partie, qui finit aux mots avrai juaXXov inclusivement, est comprise dans le § Ixx. de la traduc- tion, ou est sa veritable place; le resfe a ete mis a la fin du § lix. —Coray, ed. of 1816, pp. 9, 10. L. puts it after lirnr'nTTnv in § 63.] ' For this amended version of this pasenge, 860 Littro, ii. p. Hi. knowing beforehand tlie seasons, sucli a one must be acquainted witb each particular, and must suc- ceed in the preservation of health, and be by no means unsuccessful in the practice of his art. 8. And if it shall be thought that these things belong rather to meteor- ology, ^ it will be admitted, on second thoughts, that astronomy contributes not a little, but a very great deal indeed, to medicine. For with the seasons the digestive organs of men undergo a change. (3.) But how each of the aforemen- tioned things should be investi- gated and explained, I will now declare in a clear manner. II. 9. A CITY that is exposed to hot winds (these are between the wintry rising and the wintry setting of the sun), and to which these are peculiar, but which is sheltered from the north winds; in such a city the waters will be plenteous and saltish, and, as they run from an elevated source, they are neces- sarily hot in summer, and cold in winter; * * * * ' i.e. Astrononiy. (?)