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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    10. 27. JEvetixmaintenant exposer ce qui est a dire sur les eaux, et montrer quelles eaux sont malsaines, et qiielles sont tres saluhres, qmlles incommodites ou quels Mens re- sultent des eaux dont on fait usage ; car elles out une grande injlioence sur la sante. 28. Les ea%bx dormantes, soit de marais, soit d'etangs, sont neces- sairemeni, pendant I'ete, chaudes, epaisses, de mauvaise odeur; n'ayant point d'ecoulement; mats etant ali- mentees continuellemeyit par de nouvelles pluies, et echavffees par le soleil, elles deviennent louches, mal- saines et propres a augmenter la bile. Fendant I'hiver, au contraire, la gelee les penetre, la neige et la glace les trouhlent, ce qui les rend les plus favorables d la production de la pitioite et des enrouements. 29. Geux qui en font usage, out toujours la rate volumineuse et dure, le ventre resserre, emacie et chaitd, les epaules et les clavicides decharnees. En effet, les chairs sefondent au profit de la rate, et c'est la cause de la maigreur de ces Tiommes. Avec une telle constitution, ils sont affames et alteres. Les cavites superieures et ivferieures y sont fort seches, de sorte que, pour les purger, il faut ' C. [Neles ayant jusqu'ici considerees que r lativementil leiir exposition.]—Coray, p. 25, ed. 1816. 7, 27. AND I wish to give an account of tlie other kinds of waters, namely, of such as are wholesome and such as are un- wholesome, and what bad and what good effects may bo derived from water ; for water contributes much towards health.^ 28. Such waters, then, as are marshy, stagnant, and belong to lakes, are necessarily hot in sum- mer, thick, and have a strong smell, since they have no current; but being constantly supplied by rain-water, and the sun heating them, they necessarily want their proper colour, are unwholesome and form bile ; in winter, they become congealed, cold, and muddy with the snow and ice, so that they are most apt to engender phlegm, and bring on hoarseness ; 29. those who drink them have large and obstructed spleens, their bellies are hard, emaciated, and hot; and their shoulders, collar-bones, and faces are emaciated; for their flesh is melted down and taken up by the spleen, and hence they are slender; such persons then are voracious and thirsty; their bellies are very dry both above and below, so that they require the strongest medi- ' Paulus yEgineta, i. 66 (Adams) ; also see C ray's note in liis first edition.