Hippocrates, Volume IX - Coan Prenotions. Anatomical and Minor Clinical Writings

Informationen zum Autor Hippocrates Klappentext This is the ninth volume in the Loeb Classical Library's ongoing edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Here Paul Potter presents the Greek text with facing English translation of eleven treatises, four previously unavailable in English, that illuminate Hippocratic medicine in such areas as anatomy, physiology, prognosis and clinical signs, obstetrics, and ophthalmology. Zusammenfassung Of the roughly seventy treatises in the Hippocratic Collection, many are not by Hippocrates (said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BC), but they are essential sources of information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body, and he was undeniably the “Father of Medicine.”

About the author

Paul Potter is Chair of the Department of the History of Medicine, University of Western Ontario.

Product details

• Authors: Hippocrates
• Assisted by: Paul Potter (Editor), Potter Paul (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2010
• EAN: 9780674996403
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99640-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [e-mail]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Prose: non-fiction, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, History of Medicine, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Biography and non-fiction prose, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval