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Diseases of Women 1-2

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The Loeb Classical Library's edition of Hippocrates' texts is a comprehensive collection of essential information about medicine in antiquity and Greek theories about the human body. This volume presents the Greek text with facing English translation of Diseases of Women 1 and 2, which provide extensive accounts of female reproductive life, pathological conditions affecting the female reproductive organs, and their proper terminology and recommended treatments.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 528 pages
\n Publication date: 13 November 2018
\n Publisher: Harvard University Press
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This is the eleventh and final volume in the Loeb Classical Library's complete edition of Hippocrates' invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Here, Paul Potter presents the Greek text with facing English translation of Diseases of Women 1 and 2, which represent the most extensive accounts in the Hippocratic collection of female reproductive life, the pathological conditions affecting the female reproductive organs, and their proper terminology and recommended treatments. A lexicon of therapeutic agents is included for reference.

The works available in the Loeb Classical Library edition of Hippocrates are:

Volume I: Ancient Medicine. Airs, Waters, Places. Epidemics 1 and 3. The Oath. Precepts. Nutriment.

Volume II: Prognostic. Regimen in Acute Diseases. The Sacred Disease. The Art. Breaths. Law. Decorum. Physician (Ch. 1). Dentition.

Volume III: On Wounds in the Head. In the Surgery. On Fractures. On Joints. Mochlicon.

Volume IV: Nature of Man. Regimen in Health. Humours. Aphorisms. Regimen 1–3. Dreams.

Volume V: Affections. Diseases 1–2.

Volume VI: Diseases 3. Internal Affections. Regimen in Acute Diseases.

Volume VII: Epidemics 2 and 4–7.

Volume VIII: Places in Man. Glands. Fleshes. Prorrhetic 1–2. Physician. Use of Liquids. Ulcers. Haemorrhoids and Fistulas.

Volume IX: Anatomy. Nature of Bones. Heart. Eight Months Child. Coan Prenotions. Crises. Critical Days. Superfetation. Girls. Excision of the Fetus. Sight.

Volume X: Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Barrenness.

\n Weight: 368g\n
Dimension: 165 x 122 x 27 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780674996571\n \n

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