{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg042.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg042.local001","title":"De causis morborum","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Galen","authorityName":"GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","editors":["Karl Gottlob Kühn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Knobloch","place":"Leipzig","date":"1824","volume":"7","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://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hxpp8n?urlappend=%3Bseq=13%3Bownerid=27021597764275116-17","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De causis morborum. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1824. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg042.local001","excerpt":"Πόσα μέν ἐστι καὶ τίνα τὰ σύμπαντα νοσήματα κατ’ εἴδη τε καὶ γένη διαιρουμένοις, ἁπλᾶ τε καὶ σύνθετα, δι’ ἑτέρου δεδήλωται γράμματος. ἑξῆς δ’ ἂν εἴη τὰς αἰτίας αὐτῶν ἑκάστου διελθεῖν, ἀπὸ τῶν ἁπλῶν τε καὶ ὁμοιομερῶν ὀνομαζομένων τοῦ ζώου μορίων ἀρξαμένους, εἶτ’ αὖθις ἐπὶ τὰ σύνθετά τε καὶ ὀργανικὰ μεταβάντας. ἐπεὶ τοίνυν ἐδείχθη, κατὰ μὲν τοὺς ἡνῶσθαί τε καὶ ἠλλοιῶσθαι τὴν ὑποβεβλημένην οὐσίαν γενέσει καὶ φθορᾷ δοξάζοντας, ἅπασα νόσος ὁμοιομεροῦς τε καὶ ἁπλοῦ πρὸς αἴσθησιν σώματος ἤτοι δυσκρασία τις ὑπάρχουσα, ἢ τῆς συνεχείας αὐτοῦ τῶν μερῶν διαίρεσις, κατὰ δὲ τοὺς μήθ’ ἡνῶσθαι καὶ κενόν τι παραπεπλέχθαι πάσῃ σώματος συγκρίσει νομίζοντας, ἀμετρία τε πόρων οὖσα καὶ λύσις τῆς αἰσθητῆς ἑνώσεως, ἀρξώμεθα καὶ νῦν ἐπισκοπεῖσθαι τὰς αἰτίας ἑκάστου τῶν νοσημάτων τῆς πρώτης ὑποθέσεως, ἣν δὴ καὶ ἀληθῆ πεπείσμεθα ὑπάρχειν. ἦν δ’, οἶμαι, τέτταρα μὲν ἁπλᾶ, τέτταρα δὲ σύνθετα, ποτὲ μὲν τοῦ θερμοῦ…","divisions":[{"label":"ΓΑΛΗΝΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΤΩΝ ΕΝ ΤΟΙΣ ΝΟΣΗΜΑΣΙΝ ΑΙΤΙΩΝ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001/#tlg0057-tlg042-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001/#tlg0057-tlg042-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001/#tlg0057-tlg042-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001/#tlg0057-tlg042-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001/#tlg0057-tlg042-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001/#tlg0057-tlg042-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001/#tlg0057-tlg042-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001/#tlg0057-tlg042-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001/#tlg0057-tlg042-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001/#tlg0057-tlg042-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001/#tlg0057-tlg042-local001-11"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg042.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg042/local001.json.gz"}}