NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 



Auspices of the Sydenham Society, London, 1849, and New 

 York, 1886. These writings vary in wisdom and knowledge, 

 and not all of them seem to emanate from the same school. 

 Hippocrates was of an Asclepiad family, and born on the 

 island of Cos, where a temple school of medicine already 

 flourished. He is the supreme representative of the Coan 

 school. The doctrines of the rival school of Cnidus were 

 disapproved by him, yet will be found to have crept into 

 some of the writings included in the Hippocratic Corpus. 

 The Cnidian school was a little earlier than the Coan, 

 and admirable in its practice. Unfortunately for us, and 

 for its own repute, the Cnidian writings are lost. Plato's 

 irony has ruined the Sophists, and the slurs of the Church 

 Fathers on such of their opponents as the Gnostics can- 

 not be repelled by men whom time has rendered voiceless. 

 We wish that the Cnidians also could speak for themselves. 

 1. The short piece Ilepl Tixr>> — Concerning [the] Art 

 [of healing], in the sixth volume of Littre's edition, argues 

 that there is a real medicine or healing art, which, for 

 example (§ n), enables the physician to infer from other 

 symptoms what is not visible to the eye in internal disease. 



8. Heidel's translation, o.c. 



9. The writer of the tract has not in mind those 

 working hypotheses or pre-suppositions, which every man 

 of science uses in systematic observation and experiment; 

 he is thinking of the hypotheses which would ascribe all 

 disease to an excess of warmth or cold, dryness or moisture; 

 for this does not tally with common experience. 



10. Water, unmixed with wine, was not highly thought 

 of in ancient Greece. 



11. On Ancient Medicine, § 13, Adams' translation, o.c, 

 slightly modified. 



12. Heidel's translation, o.c. (a very little changed). 



13. Adams' Translation, o.c. 



14. The attention of Hippocrates and his school was 

 fastened upon acute diseases; chronic affections were re- 

 garded as a result of them. 



15. Adams' Translation, o.c. 



16. Says Charles Singer, after citing some of these 



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