The definitive English edition of "The Father of Medicine". This is the eleventh and final volume of the complete edition of the Loeb Classical Library for the invaluable writings of Hippocrates, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and the Greek theories regarding the human body.

Here, Paul Potter presents the Greek text with the facing English translation of "On the Diseases of Women 1 and 2", which represent the most extensive references in Hippocrates’ collection on female reproductive life, the pathological conditions affecting the female reproductive organs, as well as the appropriate terminology and suggested treatments. A glossary of therapeutic means is also available for the reader.

The titles available in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Hippocrates include:

• Volume I: Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Prognostics. Diet.
• Volume II: Prognosis. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art. Breaths. Law. Decoration. Dentition.
• Volume III: On Wounds in the Head. On Surgery. On Fractures. On Joints. The Lever.
• Volume IV: Nature of Man. Regimen in Health. Humors. Aphorisms. Regimen 1-3. Dreams.
• Volume V: Diseases. Diseases 1-2.
• Volume VI: Diseases 3. Internal Diseases. Regimen in Acute Diseases.
• Volume VII: Epidemics 2 and 4-7.
• Volume VIII: Places in Man. Glands. Flesh. Prognostics 1-2. Physician. Use of Liquids. Ulcers. Hemorrhoids and Fistulas.
• Volume IX: Anatomy. Nature of Bones. Heart. Eight-Month-Old Child. Coan Prognostics. Crises. Critical Days. Hypertension. Girls. Abortion of the Fetus. Vision.
• Volume X: Birth. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Sterility.
• Volume XI: On the Diseases of Women 1-2.

Pages: 528, Year of Publication: 1113, Dimensions: 10.8x10.8cm