Hippocrates on airs, waters, and places / the received Greek text of Littré, with Latin, French, and English translations by eminent scholars.

Date:
1881
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hippocrates on airs, waters, and places / the received Greek text of Littré, with Latin, French, and English translations by eminent scholars. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

    31/120 (page 23)
    10. 27. JE veux maintenant exposer ce qui est à dire sur les eaux, et montrer quelles eaux sont malsaines, et quelles sont très saluhres, quelles incommodités oit quels biens ré- sultent des eaux dont on fait usage ; car elles ont une grande influence sur la santé. 28. Les eaux dorma/ntes, soit de marais, soit d'étangs, sont néces- sairement, fendant l'été, chaudes, épaisses, de mauvaise odeur; n'ayant point d'écoulement ; mais étant ali- mentées continuellement par de nouvelles pluies, et échauffées par le soleil, elles deviennent louches, mal- saines et propres à augmenter la bile. lOndant l'hiver, au contraire, la gelée les pénètre, la neige et la glace les troublent, ce qui les rend les plus favorables à la production de la pituite et des enrouements. 29. Ceux qui en font usage, ont toujours la rate volumineuse et dure, le ventre resserré, éniacié et chaud, les épaules et les clavicules décharnées. En effet, les chairs se fondent au profit de la rate, et c'est la cause de la maigreur de ces hommes. Avec une telle constitution, ils sont affamés et altérés. Les cavités supérieures et inférieures y sont fort sèches, de sorte que, pour les purger, il faut ' C [Ne les ayant jnsqn'ici coDsidérées que r lativementà leur exposition.]—Coray, ' p. 25, ed. 1816. i I 7. 27. AND I wish to give an account of the other kinds of waters^ namely, of such as are wholesome and such as are un- wholesome, and what bad and what good efifects may be 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- ^ Paulas JUgineta, i. 66 (Adams) ; also see C> ray's note in his first edition.