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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674996836

ISBN-139780674996830

eBay Product ID (ePID)117179131

Product Key Features

Number of Pages464 Pages

Publication NameHippocrates, Volume X : Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Barrenness

LanguageEnglish

SubjectAncient / Greece, History

Publication Year2012

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaScience, Medical, History

AuthorHippocrates

SeriesLoeb Classical Library

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length6.4 in

Item Width4.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN23-012030

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number520

IllustratedYes

Volume NumberVol. 10

Dewey Decimal610.938

SynopsisThis volume, the tenth of Hippocrates' invaluable texts on the practice of medicine in antiquity, provides essential information about human reproduction and reproductive disorders and expounds a general theory of physiology and pathology, in five Greek treatises presented with facing English translation., This is the tenth 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 five treatises, four concerning human reproduction ( Generation , Nature of the Child ) and reproductive disorders ( Nature of Women , Barrenness ), and one ( Diseases 4 ) that expounds a general theory of physiology and pathology., The definitive English edition of the "Father of Medicine." This is the tenth 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 five treatises, four concerning human reproduction ( Generation , Nature of the Child ) and reproductive disorders ( Nature of Women , Barrenness ), and one ( Diseases 4) that expounds a general theory of physiology and pathology. The works available in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Hippocrates are: Volume I: Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Precepts. Nutriment. Volume II: Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Dentition. Volume III: On Wounds in the Head. In the Surgery. On Fractures. On Joints. Mochlicon. Volume IV: Nature of Man. Regimen in Health. Humors. Aphorisms. Regimen 1-3. Dreams. Volume V: Affections. Diseases 1-2. Volume VI: Diseases 3. Internal Affections. Regimen in Acute Diseases. Volume VII: Epidemics 2 and 4-7. Volume VIII: Places in Man. Glands. Fleshes. Prorrhetic 1-2. Physician. Use of Liquids. Ulcers. Haemorrhoids and Fistulas. Volume IX: Anatomy. Nature of Bones. Heart. Eight Months' Child. Coan Prenotions. Crises. Critical Days. Superfetation. Girls. Excision of the Fetus. Sight. Volume X: Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Barrenness. Volume XI: Diseases of Women 1-2.

LC Classification NumberR126.H54