Hippocrates of Kos, the Father of Western medicine, is credited with advancing the systematic study of clinical medicine, summing up the knowledge of previous schools and prescribing practices for physicians through the Hippocratic Corpus and other works. The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents Hippocrates’ complete extant works, with beautiful illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hippocrates’ life and works

* Features the complete extant works now generally believed to be written by Hippocrates, in both English translation and the original Greek

* Concise introductions

* Includes translations previously appearing in Loeb Classical Library editions of Hippocrates’ works

* Excellent formatting of the texts

* Easily locate the works you want to read with individual contents tables

* Includes many of the spurious works in the Hippocratic Corpus, first time in digital print

* Includes all of Polybus’ rare works of the Hippocratic Corpus: ON THE NATURE OF MAN and REGIMEN IN HEALTH, available in no other collection

* Provides a special dual English and Greek text, allowing readers to compare the sections paragraph by paragraph ideal for students

* Features two bonus biographies discover Hippocrates’ ancient world

* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres

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CONTENTS:

Works of Hippocrates

ON ANCIENT MEDICINE

PROGNOSTICS

APHORISMS

EPIDEMICS I AND III

ON REGIMEN IN ACUTE DISEASES

ON AIRS, WATERS, AND PLACES

ON THE ARTICULATIONS

ON FRACTURES

ON THE INSTRUMENTS OF REDUCTION

ON INJURIES OF THE HEAD

THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH

THE LAW

THE PHYSICIAN’S ESTABLISHMENT

Works of the Hippocratic Corpus

ON THE NATURE OF MAN

REGIMEN IN HEALTH

ON ULCERS

ON FISTULAE

ON HEMORRHOIDS

ON THE SACRED DISEASE

ON ALIMENT

THE PRECEPTS

HUMOURS

DREAMS

THE ART

BREATHS

DECORUM

THE PHYSICIAN

DENTITION

The Greek Texts

LIST OF GREEK TEXTS

The Dual Texts

DUAL GREEK AND ENGLISH TEXTS

The Biographies

GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO HIPPOCRATES by W. H. S. Jones

HIPPOCRATES by Charles McRae

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