The 'Hippocratic' Corpus: Content and Context by Elizabeth M. Craik
By Elizabeth M. Craik
The Hippocratic Corpus contains a few sixty scientific works of various size, kind and content material. jointly, this is often the biggest surviving physique of early Greek prose. As such, it really is a useful source for students and scholars not just of historic medication but in addition of Greek existence in general.
Hippocrates lived within the age of Socrates and lots of the treatises appear to originate within the classical interval. there's, in spite of the fact that, no consensus on Hippocratic attribution. The ‘Hippocratic’ Corpus examines the works separately below the wide headings:
- content - every one paintings is summarised for the reader
- comment - the substance and elegance of every paintings is discussed
- context is equipped not only with regards to the corpus as a complete but additionally to the work’s wider relevance.
Whereas the student or scholar drawing close, say, Euripides or Herodotus has a wealth of books to be had to supply advent and orientation, no such examine has existed for the Hippocratic Corpus. because the ‘Hippocratic’ Corpus has a considerable advent, and as each one paintings is summarised for the reader, it allows use and exploration of an immense physique of facts by way of all drawn to Greek drugs and society.
Elizabeth Craik is Honorary Professor at collage of St Andrews and traveling Professor at college of Newcastle, UK.
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13) There is a sudden transition to the topic of drinks and discussion follows of different types of wine, of the qualities and effects of hydromel (honey in water), of the qualities and effects of oxymel (honey in vinegar) and of the effects of water. (14–17) The benefits of baths are then discussed and part A ends abruptly. (18) Content (Acut. B) Kausos, presented in terms of cause, symptoms and treatment, is said to have two types. (1) Treatments for acute diseases are said to be, according to circumstances, bloodletting, purging and fasting.
18 ~ Hdt. 4. 29). In the Aristotelian Problemata, the question of eunuchs arises in similar terms (Probl. 879b). Both Plato and Aristotle air generalisations about Europeans, supposedly more spirited in character, and Asiatics (Pl. Lg. 747d, Arist. Pol. 1327b). Aristotle echoes the theory that the health of a people is dependent on a city’s orientation (Pol. 1330a). The work seems to reflect the attitudes of Greece in the period following the Persian wars: Aeschylus too wrote on the Scythians and distant travel (in Prometheus Bound and in Suppliants), inaugurating an era of exploration and intellectual discovery.
13; 37–38 = L. 14; 39 = L. 15; 40 = L. 16; 41 = L. 17; 42–50 = L. 18; 51 = L. 19; 52 = L. 20; 53 = L. 21; 54 = L. 22; 55 = L. 23; 56 = L. 24; 57 = L. 25; 58 = L. 26; 59 = L. 27; 60 = L. 28; 61–62 = L. 29; 63 = L. 30; 64 = L. 31; 65 = L. 32; 66 = L. 33; 67 = L. 34; 68 = L. 35; 69 = L. 36; 70 = L. 37; 71= L. 38; 72 = L. 39. Content (Acut. A) It is conceded that, ‘The authors of the so-called Knidian Opinions have correctly written of the experiences of sufferers from individual diseases and of the 2â•… The ‘Hippocratic’ Works outcome of some diseases’; but objected that they omit much of importance, that decisions on treatment are poor, and that treatment is restricted to purges, whey and milk.