Eminent medical men of Asia, Africa, Europe and America, who have advanced medical science; for the use of students and for the Vydians and Hakims of India / by Edward Balfour.

Balfour Edward (Edward Green), 1813-1889.

Date:: 1876

Credit: Eminent medical men of Asia, Africa, Europe and America, who have advanced medical science; for the use of students and for the Vydians and Hakims of India / by Edward Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$origin. He was sldlfal in prognosis. While there are fe , peraons of any age or nature who attained to greater dis tinction among their contemporaries or whose memory ha been more cherished by posterity, there has perhaps been n one whose fame was more merited or established upon afirme foundation. The essays attributed to him are 72 in nnm ber, but only 15 or 20 are supposed to be genuine. Th most esteemed are the essays on Air, Water and Locality on Proo-nosis; on Wounds of the head; and on Diet i acute diseases. Herophilus, Asclepiades, Rafus Ephesianni ^. Celsus, Galen and others wrote' commentaries on h' writings, but those by Galen still extant are De natni hominis; De salubri victus ratione ; De ratione victusi ^ : morbis acutis; De acre, aquis et locis; De fracturis; I ' articulia ; De oEBcini medici; De alimento; De Humonbus Prssnotiones; Prsedictiones; Aphorismi; De morbis vu^ - ribus. The most ancient commentator was Herophilu! bat the most ancient commentary extant is De articuj ~ by Apollonius Citiensis. A complete edition of his wori was published in Germany. The people of Athens conferred on Hippocrates gre honors and decreed a public maintenance for bim and I' family He is said to have died at a very advanced a] ^• (99 ?) at Larissa in Thesealy. The improvements wbn he made were so considcable that for many centuri( hia successors appear to have been content to follow hi ^» in reverential imitation. It is said that while giving vain ble assistance during the plague of Athens, B. 0. 4oU, wi which the inhabitants of Persia were also afflicted, Artaxerx Longimanus invited Hippocrates to his court, but that declined to leave his countrymen in their trouble. Neith the invitation nor the reply have come down to us, b the tradition is sufficient to show the high estimation which the Greek physicians were then held, ihe dt trine of Hippocrates was blended by his immediate st cessors with the platonio philosophy from which a,rose t Bvstem of the dogmatics founded by his sons Ihessal and Draco and his son-in-law Polybius, the most renown of hia followers. The medical school of the Dogmatics h^ that disease could only be securely treated on a knowled of the healthy structure and action of * body, and of the influence of remedies and the effects$