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The genuine works of Hippocrates, Vol. 1

by Hippocrates

39 chapters, about 148,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. 1,200 words
2. SECTION I 6,400 words
3. SECTION II. 1,600 words
4. CLASSIS IV. 33,500 words
5. SECTION III. 500 words
6. THE PYTHAGOREANS. 800 words
7. THE PLATONISTS. 1,400 words
8. THE PERIPATETICS. 600 words
9. THE STOICS. 500 words
10. THE EPICUREANS. 3,100 words
11. THE ARGUMENT. 1,300 words
12. ON ANCIENT MEDICINE. 7,300 words
13. THE ARGUMENT. 2,700 words
14. ON AIRS, WATERS, AND PLACES. 9,200 words
15. THE ARGUMENT. 3,000 words
16. THE BOOK OF PROGNOSTICS. 6,500 words
17. THE BOOK OF PROGNOSTICS. 5,200 words
18. THE ARGUMENT. 3,200 words
19. ON REGIMEN IN ACUTE DISEASES. 8,200 words
20. THE ARGUMENT. 2,500 words
21. REGIMEN IN ACUTE DISEASES. 7,800 words
22. THE ARGUMENT. 4,200 words
23. SEC. I.--CONSTITUTION FIRST. 900 words
24. SEC. II.--CONSTITUTION SECOND. 1,600 words
25. THIRD CONSTITUTION. 2,100 words
26. SEC. III. 700 words
27. 13. FOURTEEN CASES OF DISEASE.[659] 3,000 words
28. THE ARGUMENT. 2,200 words
29. SEC. I. 1,000 words
30. SEC. II. 1,500 words
31. SECTION III.--CONSTITUTION 2.[699] 2,000 words
32. SEC. 17. SIXTEEN CASES.[724] 3,500 words
33. THE ARGUMENT. 7,200 words
34. ON INJURIES OF THE HEAD 6,200 words
35. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES TO VOL. I. 100 words
36. FOOTNOTES: 900 words
37. [228] VIII., 4. 300 words
38. [372] I. 105. 3,200 words
39. [773] IV., 5, 3, 1. 500 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Abortion
• Depression (mood)
• Epidemic
• Hippocrates
• Mutation

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