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HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)

-460 – -370

64 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1476 CE

#52

Articella seu opus artis medicinae. Con: Johannitius: Isagoge ad tegni Galeni. Philaretus: De pulsibus; Theophilus Protospatharius: De urinis. Hippocrates: Aphorismi (comm: Galenus; tr: Constantinus Africanus); Prognostica (comm: Galenus); De regimine acutorum morborum (comm: Galenus; tr: Gerardus Cremonensis). Galenus: Liber Tegni, sive Ars medica (comm: Hali; tr: Gerardus Cremonensis).

A collection of Greek, Roman and Byzantine texts on medicine, written in Latin, that was mainly used as medical school textbook or reference manual between the 13th and 16th centuries. The Articella grew around a synt…

1481 CE

#6929

De natura hominis. Add: De victu; De tuenda valetudine; Medicinae lex; Iusiurandum; Demonstratio quod artes sunt; Invectiva in obtrectatores medicinae. Tr: Andreas Brentius.

The writings of Hippocrates began to appear in print in the 1480s, and only a few of the works attributed to Hippocrates were printed in the 15th century. Though the date of this edition is unstated within the book it…

1481 CE

#6313

Liber ad Almansorem sive Tractatus medicinae I-X. Add: Liber divisionum; De aegritudinibus juncturarum; De aegritudinibus puerorum; De secretis sive aphorismi; De sectionibus et ventosis; Synonyma. Galenus: De medicinis experimentatis. Mesue (the elder): Aphorismi. Hippocrates: secreta; Capsula eburnea; De humana natura; De aere et aqua et regionibus; De pharmaciis. Tabula de herbis medicis.

Rhazes was the first to devote an entire treatise to diseases of children. Although he lived so many years before the advent of printing, he was still regarded as an authority in the 15th century and his works were am…

1483 CE

#6813

De divisione librorum Galeni IN: Articella seu Opus artis medicinae.

Considering the central importance of Galen's writings in medicine from the time he wrote well through the sixteenth and even the seventeenth century, and the need for physicians to make sense of such a large number o…

1483 CE

#1757.9

Jusiurandum IN: Nicholaus Perottus, De generibus metrorum.

One of the two earliest dated printings of the Hippocratic Oath. Digital facsimile from the Dombibliothek Freising at this link. ISTC No. ip00298000. It is possible that an undated edition attributed to 1481 (Entry No…

1489 CE

#6495.7

Maimonides: Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni. Add: Mesue: Aphorismi. Rhasis: De secretis in medicina. Hippocrates: Capsula eburnea.

The most popular and influential medical work by Maimonides, the most famous of early Jewish physician/philosophers. This is a collection of about 1500 aphorisms derived from Galen, and divided into 24 treatises. In t…

1497 CE

#39.1

Rhazes: Liber ad Almansorem sive Tractatus medicinae I-X. Liber divisionum. De aegritudinibus juncturarum. De aegritudinibus puerorum. De secretis sive aphorismi. Antidotarium. De praeservatione ab aegritudine lapidis; Introductorium medicinae. De sectionibus et ventosis. Synonyma. De animalibus. Add:Tabula de herbis medicis; Maimonides: Aphorismi; Mesue (the elder): Aphorismi; Hippocrates: Secreta; Prognosticatio secundum lunam; Capsula eburnea; De humana natura; De aere et aqua et regionibus; De pharmaciis; De insomniis; Avenzohar: De cura lapidis.

The best edition of the Opuscula of Rhazes, containing the second printing of the celebrated Liber ad Almansorem, not to be confused with Liber nonus ad Almansorem, as well as De aegritudine puerorum (No. 6313), and o…

1525 CE

#6820

Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, octoginta volumnia quibus maxima ex parte, annorum circiter duo millia Latina caruit lingua. . . .translated by Marco Fabio Calvo

The first collected edition of the Hippocratic collection in the Latin translation of Marco Fabio Calvo of Ravenna, dedicated to Pope Clement VII. "This volume, which preceded the first, Aldine, edition of the Greek t…

1526 CE

#9079

Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, opera: quibus maxima ex parte annorum circiter duo millia Latina caruit lingua: Graeci vero & Arabes, & prisci nostri Medici, plurimis tamen utilibus prætermissis, scripta sua illustrarunt: nunc tandem per M. Fabiu Rhauennatem, Gulielmum Copum Basiliensem, Nicolaum Leonicenu & Andream Brentium, viros doctissimos Latinate donata, ac iamprimu in lucem aedita: quo revera humano generi nihil fieri potuit salubrius.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1526 CE

#6931

Opera omnia.

First edition of the Greek text of the works of Hippocrates, issued by Aldus Manutius of Venice one year after the first complete edition in Latin was issued in Rome. The Aldine text was edited by Aldus's brother-in-l…

1537 CE

#7145

De corporis humani fabrica libri quinque a Junio Paulo Crasso Patavino in latinam orationem conversi. [Cum] Hippocratis praeterea Coi de purgatoriis medicamentis libellus perutilis, ac desideratus ab eodem Jun. Paulo Cras. Latinitate donatus.

A Byzantine anatomical and physiological treatise almost entirely abridged from Galen's "De usu partium corporis humani," from which Theophilus now and then differed, and which he sometimes appears to have misundersto…

1552 CE

#7807

Meletius, De natura structuraque hominis opus. Polemonis Atheniensis, Naturae signorum interpretationis. Hippocratis, De hominis structura. Diocles, De tuenda valetudine epistola. Melampus, De nevis corporis tractatus. Omnia haec non prius edita. Nicolao Petreio Corcyraeo interprete.

This collection of Late Antique and Byzantine medicine edited by Nicolas Petreius begins with a Byzantine treatise on anatomy, probably written in the eighth century by Meletius, a Christian monk and physician from Ph…

1588 CE

#3416

A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body: With other precepts of the same arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus ... and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion: Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung: With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern: And also the discription of the emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with its use and vertues: With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.

This translation by surgeon John Read contains the first printing of John of Arderne's writings on his operation for the cure of anal fistula, written originally about 1376. At one time John of Arderne practiced at Ne…

1595 CE

#6930

Magni Hippocratis medicorum omnium facile principis, opera omnia quae extant in viii sectiones....

The French humanist physician Foës produced the first Greek & Latin edition of the complete extant works of Hippocrates. His edition was the most significant before that of Littré.

1832 CE

#12667

The Aphorisms of Hippocrates, translated into Arabic by Honain ben Ishak, physician to the Caliph Motawukkul. [Edited from two MSS

1839 CE–1861 CE

#13

Oeuvres complètes d’Hippocrate. Traduction nouvelle avec le texte grec en regard, collationné sur les manuscrits et toutes les éditions: Accompagnée d'une introduction de commentaires médicaux, de variantes et de notes philologiques; suivie d'une table générale des matières par É[mile] Littré. 10 vols.

The above bilingual edition was the result of 22 years of continuous labor, remains the most significant edition overall. For a detailed bibliography of modern editions and translations see Paul Potter, Short handbook…

1849 CE

#14

The genuine works of Hippocrates. Translated from the Greek with a preliminary discourse and annotations by Francis Adams. 2 vols.

Francis Adams, surgeon of Banchory, Scotland, prepared this partial translation to acquaint his contemporaries with “the opinions of an author, whom I verily believe to be the highest exemplar of professional ex…

1859 CE–1864 CE

#12710

Hippocrates et aliorum medicorum veterum reliquiae...edidit Franciscus Zacharias Ermerins. 3 vols.

Greek text of the Hippocratic corpus with facing Latin translations. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1877 CE–1878 CE

#4850.1

Chirurgie d’Hippocrate. 2 vols

A Greek-French edition with extensive notes and commentaries by J. E. Pétrequin, surgeon-in-chief of the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyon. Operations attributed to Hippocrates included trephination and paracentesis; hi…

1894 CE–1902 CE

#15

Hippocrates Opera. Recensuit H. Kuehlewein. 2 vols.

This Greek edition, originally planned to include the whole collection in seven volumes, was abandoned in 1907 with the founding of the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum series. Both editions employ manuscripts and methods u…

1903 CE

#12535

Une version syriaque des aphorismes d'Hippocrate. Texte et traduction par H. Pognon. 2 vols.

Edition of Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds arabe 6734, a Syriac manuscript copied on 10 October 1205 by a physician, probably a Jacobite or Melchite naned Behnam, but nothing in the codex indicates the …

1923 CE

#6267

Epidemics 1, case 4. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H. Jones.

The earliest known description of puerperal fever.

1923 CE

#5228

Epidemics I and III. In [Works] with English translation by W.H.S. Jones, 1, 139-287

Hippocrates may be regarded as the first malariologist; he clearly and fully described the intermittent fevers; he was acquainted with seasonal and topographical variations in the distribution of malaria; and he recog…

1923 CE

#1672

Epidemics I and III. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones.

Hippocrates introduced the inductive method of studying epidemics.

1923 CE

#1767

On airs, waters, and places. IN: his [Works] with an English translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1, pp. 65-137

“The first book ever written on medical geography, climatology, and anthropology” (Garrison). The Latin translation of this text was first published in Rhazes’ Liber ad Almansorem, Milan, 1481. See N…

1923 CE

#4807

The sacred disease. In [Works]…edited with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones. 2, 127-83

This includes the first mention of epilepsy in children. Hippocrates grouped all convulsive attacks together as ερα νο̂σος, the sacred disease. He did not employ the w…

1923 CE–2012 CE

#16

Hippocrates [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones, E.T. Withington, and Paul Potter. 12 vols.

Greek–English edition in the Loeb Classical Library.

1927 CE

#4203.9

Aphorisms, Section VII, number 34. In his Works. Ed. W. H. S. JONES and E. T. WITHINGTON

The first description of the association of proteinuria and chronic renal disease.

1927 CE

#4406

Fractures, joints, instruments of reduction. In [Works] with an English translation by E.T. Withington, 3, 83-449.

1950 CE

#16.1

The medical works of Hippocrates. A new translation by J. Chadwick and W.N. Mann.

This collection of translations was partly reprinted with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd, and the addition of three new translations by I.M. Lonie as Hippocratic Writings, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1978.

1964 CE

#9440

Les commentaires de Martin de Saint-Gille sur les aphorisms Ypocras. Edited by Germaine Lafeuille.

1967 CE

#10644

Hippocrate, Du régime. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On regimen of the Hippocratic Collection. The treatise dates to the late 5th or early 4th century BCE.

1970 CE

#10689

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XI: De la génération. De la nature de l'enfant. Des maladies IV. Du foetus de huit mois. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection about generation or considered to be about it: On generation, and On the nature of the child, both dated…

1972 CE

#10684

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome VI, 2e partie: Du régime des maladies aiguës, Appendice, De l'aliment, De l'usage des liquides. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises of different periods devoted to nutrition: On regimen in acute diseases (in two versions, with the second traditionally identified as th…

1977 CE

#12174

Palladius Kommentar zu Hippokrates ‘De fracturis’ und seine Parallelversion under dem Namen des Stephanus von Alexandria. Edited by Dieter Irmer. [Hamburger Philologische Studien 45].

1978 CE

#10691

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XIII: Des lieux dans l'homme, Du système des glandes, Des fistules, Des hémorroïdes, De la vision, Des chairs, De la dentition. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection concerning anatomy, physiology, and pathology with the following possible periods of orig…

1981 CE

#6485.61

The Hippocratic treatises “On generation” “On the nature of the child” “Diseases IV”. A commentary.

1982 CE

#9752

Cinq cents ans de bibliographie hippocratique, 1473-1982.

Includes 3332 numbered entries of works concerning Hippocrates and the Hippocratic corpus with index of author's names with their Latin form (particularly helpful for Renaissance Latinized names) and index of modern a…

1983 CE

#10687

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome X, 2e partie: Maladies II. Texte établi et traduit by Jacques Jouanna.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On diseases II from the Hippocratic Collection, possibly from the second half of the fifth century BCE.

1984 CE

#9822

Bibliografia Hipocrática.

Alphabetical bibliography by author's name of all scholars, physicians, and others who studied the Hippocratic Collection and published about it. Entries include a brief biography of the authors, transcription of the …

1984 CE

#9753

Concordance des oeuvres hippocratiques. Éditée par Gilles Maloney et Winnie Frohn, avec la collaboration du Dr. Paul Potter. 5 vols.

Iintroductory material in French; text in Greek.

1985 CE

#8297

Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic writings in the Latin Middle Ages. Revised edition with additions and corrections.

A systematic attempt to gather the names and locations of manuscripts on the individual treatises that circulated in the Latin West before 1500 under the name or aegis of Hippocrates of Cos.

1987 CE

#8270

Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. Translated with a commentary by Fred Rosner

1988 CE

#10643

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome V, 1ère partie: Des vents. De l'art. Texte établi et traduit par Jacques Jouanna.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On winds and On the art of medicine from the Hippocratic Corpus. Both treatises date to the final decades of the 5th cent. BCE. On winds claim…

1989 CE

#8423

Index Hippocraticus Cui elaborando interfuerunt sodales Thesauri Linguae Graecae Hamburgensis. Edited by Joseph-Hans Kühn and Ulrich Fleischer.

There have been several supplements, etc. "This index contains the entire vocabulary (with the exception of the article and a few particles) of the complete writings constituting the Corpus Hippocraticum. Quotations a…

1990 CE

#10636

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 1ère partie: De l'ancienne médecine. Texte établi et traduit par Jacques Jouanna.

One of the most emblematic treatises of the Hippocratic Collection. The author, a physician presumably associated with Hippocrates but otherwise unidentified, illustrates the value of scientific medicine sometime betw…

1992 CE

#13533

Hippocrate.

Translated into English by M. B. DeBevoise as Hippocrates, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

1992 CE

#10436

Hippocrate.

Translated into English by M. B. DeBevoise as Hippocrates (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1999).

1996 CE

#10019

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 2ème partie: Airs, eaux, lieux. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France).

1997 CE

#8226

Corpus Hippocraticum: Verzeichnis der hippokratischen und pseudohippokratischen Schriften.

Revised edition (2013) is available online at this link: http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publikationen/hippokrates_2013_02.pdf