Volume 2

Hippocrates upon Air, water, and situation; upon Epidemical diseases; and upon Prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To this is added (by way of comparison) Thucydidesʼs Account of the plague of Athens / The whole translated, methodisʼd, and illustrated with useful and explanatory notes by Francis Clifton. [With life of Hippocrates from Soranus].

  • Hippocrates.
Date:
1734
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Credit: Hippocrates upon Air, water, and situation; upon Epidemical diseases; and upon Prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To this is added (by way of comparison) Thucydidesʼs Account of the plague of Athens / The whole translated, methodisʼd, and illustrated with useful and explanatory notes by Francis Clifton. [With life of Hippocrates from Soranus]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with black, denotes mifchief, efpecially in thofe which tu*very w^^te 7* A vifcid, unmix’d, or white ftool is bad. So is that %Viiich is very much fermented, and fomewhat phlegmy. A livid, purulent, and bilious fediment in fuch as comes away hard and painful is alfo bad 8. A ilimy, lividiih, fediment in that which comes a- way with great pain is bad. Queery, Whether the hy- pochondres are in pain ? (if I miftake not, the right is) and whether their ftrength does not fail ’em ? or whe¬ ther painful fwellings behind the ears do not foon fol¬ low ? a violent loofenefs in all thefe cafes is pernicious 9. Vifcid, bilious, ftools are more apt to produce ab- fcejfes behind the ears 1. Burning heats appearing upon a difcharge of bilious, foft, ftercoraceous, matter, produce tumours behind the ears 2. Bilious ftools are flopp’d by deafnefs, and this again by thefe 3. Where a biting (or gnawing) and bitternefs is felt in the breaft, the ftools at the fame time being bilious, it is bad 4. 7 C. P. 614. 8 Ibid. 604. sx, τροφίω^ζων νττοτΛΰΊς, or, as the firffc hook of Prsed. has it. Numb. 156, ς-ροφω^ους υποταοΊζ. %he one fignifying hardnefs and condenfation, the other pain and great uneafinefs ; both ‘which the tranflation exprejfes. 9 L. ϊ . Prasd. Numb. 15 b. Here zuKvofiou is undoubt¬ edly right, fo much pain never changing the countenance to the colour that sfc^Ao/ouy^cu exprejfes, viz. a pale colour with a greeniih call; but it too often *wearies the patient out, and ^weakens him. 1 C. P. 622. 2 Ibid. 626. 3 Ibid. 627, and L. 4. aph. 28. to the very fame pur- pfe. ' · ' 4 Ibid. 43. In