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THIS volume appears to be a reproduction in book form of Francis Adams' translation for the Sydenham Society in 1849, which Dr. Emerson Crosby Kelly, the editor, had already published in Medical Classics for September, October and November, 1838. It contains the following works of Hippocrates which Adams regarded as genuine: The Oath, On Ancient Medicine, On Airs, Waters and Places, On the Prognostics, On Regimen in Acute Diseases, First and Third Books of the Epidemics, On Injuries of the Head, On the Surgery, On Fractures, On the Articulations, Mochlicus, Aphorisms, the Law, On Ulcers, On Fistulse, On Hæmorrhoids, and On the Sacred Disease. The present edition has the advantage over the Sydenham Society's publication in consisting of only one volume instead of two, but this has been effected by the omission of (1) Adams's Preliminary Discourse, which deals with the life of Hippocrates, his disquisition on the authorship of the different treatises attributed to Hippocrates, and the physical philosophy of the ancients, (2) Adams's introductions to the various treatises contained in the volume, and (3) almost all the footnotes as well as a considerable number of the entries of the index. The present edition, therefore, will be more acceptable to the general reader than to the medical historian, who will miss the learned commentaries of one of the most famous authorities in classical Greek medicine.
The Genuine Works of Hippocrates
Translated from the Greek by Dr. Francis Adams. Pp. ix + 384 + 8 plates. (London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1939.) 13s. 6d.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 297 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145297a0
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