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The Prognostics and Prorrhetics of Hippocrates / translated from the original Greek; with large annotations, critical and explanatory: to which is prefixed a short account of the life of Hippocrates: by John Moffat.

  • Hippocrates. Prognostics. English
Date:
1788
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Credit: The Prognostics and Prorrhetics of Hippocrates / translated from the original Greek; with large annotations, critical and explanatory: to which is prefixed a short account of the life of Hippocrates: by John Moffat. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Χ] commodated her behaviour towards the king, that his health was in a {hort time completely re{tored. He was likewife invited by the dderiza- nians, in order to cure Democritus of madnefs, and free their city from the ravages of the plague. Befides, when this diforder raged in dllyria, Paonia, and other barbarous coun- tries, he was folicited by the principal perfons of each to pay them a wifit; but, being in- formed by the meflengers from what quarter ithe winds in thefe regions generally blew, he difmiffed them without complying with their requeft; reafoning within himfelf, that the difeafe might reach ¢tica, and forefeeing the confequence, he was actuated with a concern for fuperintending the fafety of the cities and inhabitants of this territory.
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