The definitive English edition of "Father of Medicine." This is the ninth volume in the ongoing edition of the Loeb Classical Library that contains the invaluable texts of Hippocrates, providing key insights into the practice of medicine in antiquity and the Greek theories concerning the human body. Here, Paul Potter presents the Greek text alongside an English translation of eleven therapeutic writings, four of which were previously unavailable in English, illuminating Hippocratic medicine in areas such as anatomy, physiology, prognosis and clinical indications, obstetrics, and ophthalmology.

The works available in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Hippocrates are:

• Volume I: Ancient Medicine. Winds, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Preconditions. Nutrition.
• Volume II: Prognosis. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art. Breaths. Law. Rules. Teething.
• Volume III: On Wounds in the Head. On Surgery. On Fractures. On Joints. Mechanical.
• 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 Fluids. Ulcers. Hemorrhoids and Fistulas.
• Volume IX: Anatomy. Nature of Bones. Heart. Eight-Month-Old Child. Coan Prognostics. Crises. Critical Days. Hyperthermias. Girls. Exclusion of the Fetus. Vision.
• Volume X: Birth. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Sterilization.
• Volume XI: Diseases of Women 1–2.

Pages: 416, Year of Publication: 0531, Dimensions: 10.8x10.8cm