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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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    Ee a dire€ting his {kill to each particular circum- fiance ; and by thus forefeeing and predicting the fate of thofe that will die, as well as thofe that recover, he will be placed far beyond the reach of blame. In acute difeafes it is proper thus narrowly to furvey the face of the fick per- fon; whether or not it refembles that of health, but above all, if it has its natural appearance, which gives rife to the moft favourable opi- nien, as the contrary portends the greateit danger; fuch as a fharp nofe, hollow eyes, the temples collapfed, the ears cold and contracted, the lobes inverted, the fkin about the forehead hard, tenfe, and dry, with the whole face of a palith green, black, livid, or leaden hue®. Should the counte- mance, therefore, be fuch in the beginning of the difeafe, and you cannot from other fymptoms conjecture the caufe, it is neceflary > The above fhort but elecant defcription conflitates the Facies Hippocratica, or Hippocratic face, fo well known in the fchools ® of phyfic to this day ; which appellation it obtained from its author Hippocrates: fome cail it the cadaverous face. Jf it ap~ pears within three days after the onfet of an acute difeafe it in- dicates death. Ὦ 4 ἴο
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