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The genuine works of Hippocrates / translated from the Greek with a preliminary discourse and annotations by Francis Adams ... In two volumes.

  • Hippocrates
Date:
1849
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Credit: The genuine works of Hippocrates / translated from the Greek with a preliminary discourse and annotations by Francis Adams ... In two volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nazianzen,' Suidas,” and Scribonius Largus.® It is also received as such by Foés, Gruner, and Littré, but is rejected by Mercuriali, Schulze, Haller, Kthn, Ackerman, and other modern authorities, as quoted by Ackerman. The only reason- able grounds which I can see for questioning its authenticity is the silence of Galen with regard to it; but when we take into account that Galen has nowhere given an entire list of what he considers to be the genuine works of Hippocrates, this omission on his part may be merely incidental, and is not of much weight. On the other hand, the argument which M. Littré seeks to establish in favour of its authenticity on fancied allu- sions to it by Aristophanes* and Plato,” appears to me to have no weight ; indeed, he himself gives up the former in another place.® I have met with the following English translations of this piece, and no doubt there may be others: ‘The Protestation which Hippocrates caused his Scholars to make, by Peter Low; Lond. 1597, ‘___, by Francis Clifton, m.p.; Lond. 1734.’ The translation by Low is in a quaint and antiquated style; that by Clifton is carefully done. XII. Nouwoc—The Law. This little piece is noticed by Erotian, and admitted as genuine by M. Littré, but Mercuriali, Gruner, Ackerman, Kuhn, and Greenhill incline to reject it It is well written, but the style is rather too scholastic for the age and taste of the great Father of Medicine. At the same time, it has so many points of accordance with ‘The Oath,’ that it seems inconsistent to admit the one as authentic and reject the other as spurious. XIII. Kar’ inrostov—On the Surgery. All the ancient commentators which have come down to us, such as Hrotian, Galen, and Palladius, admit it to be genuine ; ’ Orat. Funebr. in Cesarium Fratrem. * Sub voce Hippocrates. 3 Epist. ad C. Jal. Callistum. 4 Thesmophor., 1. 240. ° De Legg. iv, 1. vi, p. 134; ed. Tauchnitz. © Tom. ii, p. xlviii; Add. et Corrig.
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