{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg019.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg019.local001","title":"De victu attenuante","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Galen","authorityName":"GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","editors":["Karl Kalbfleisch"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Galeni De victu attenuante liber","edition":null,"publisher":"B. G. Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1898","volume":"3-37","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation","sponsors":[],"funders":["Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Keyboarding","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/galenidevictuat01galegoog/page/2/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De victu attenuante. ed. Karl Kalbfleisch. Galeni De victu attenuante liber, Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1898. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg019.local001","excerpt":"Ἐπειδὴ τὰ πλεῖστα τῶν χρονίων ἀρρωστημάτων λεπτυνούσης χρῄζει διαίτης, ὡς πολλάκις ἐπὶ μόνῃ ταύτῃ καταστῆναι καὶ μηδενὸς ἔτι φαρμάκου δεηθῆναι, καλῶς ἂν ἔχοι διορίσασθαι περὶ αὐτῆς ἀκριβέστερον· ἄμεινον γὰρ ἐν οἷς ἐγχωρεῖ διαίτῃ μόνον χρησάμενον ἐπιτυχεῖν τοῦ τέλους, ἐν τούτοις ἀφίστασθαι τῶν φαρμάκων. ὡς ἔγωγε καὶ νεφρίτιδας οἶδα καὶ ἀρθρίτιδας οὐκ ὀλίγας, ὅσαι γε μὴ πώρων ἀπέφηναν τὰ ἄρθρα μεστά, τὰς μὲν 〈παντελῶς〉 παυσαμένας ἐπὶ 〈τῇ〉 τοιαύτῃ διαίτῃ, τὰς δὲ μετριωτέρας ἀποδειχθείσας· οἶδα δὲ καὶ τῶν δυσπνοίᾳ συνεχῶς ἁλισκομένων οὐκ ὀλίγους εἰς τοσοῦτον ὠφεληθέντας ὡς ἤτοι καταστῆναι τελέως ἢ διὰ μακρῶν χρόνων ἐνοχλεῖσθαι μικρά· τήκει δὲ καὶ σπλῆνας μεγάλους ἡ λεπτύνουσα δίαιτα καὶ ἧπαρ σκιρρούμενον, καὶ ἐπιληψίας τὰς μὲν μικρὰς ἔτι καὶ ἀρχομένας ἰᾶται τελέως, ὅσαι δ’ ἤδη χρόνιαί τε καὶ ὕπουλοι, καὶ ταύτας ὀνίνησιν οὐ μικρά. κέκληται μὲν οὖν ὑπὸ τῶν ἰατρῶν ἡ τοιαύτη δίαιτα λεπτύνουσα,…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΛΕΠΤΥΝΟΥΣΗΣ ΔΙΑΙΤΗΣ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/#tlg0057-tlg019-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/#tlg0057-tlg019-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/#tlg0057-tlg019-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/#tlg0057-tlg019-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/#tlg0057-tlg019-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/#tlg0057-tlg019-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/#tlg0057-tlg019-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/#tlg0057-tlg019-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/#tlg0057-tlg019-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/#tlg0057-tlg019-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/#tlg0057-tlg019-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/#tlg0057-tlg019-local001-12"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg019.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg019/local001.json.gz"}}