{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg101.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg101.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg101.local001","title":"In Hippocratis De officina medici","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":"1830","volume":"18.2","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.hxpp91?urlappend=%3Bseq=643%3Bownerid=27021597764270865-647","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. In Hippocratis De officina medici. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1830. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg101.local001","excerpt":"Γαληνοῦ προοίμιον. Ἰατρικὸν ἐπέγραψεν αὐτὸ κατ’ ἰητρεῖον. ἄμεινον δὲ ἦν περὶ τῶν κατ’ ἰητρεῖον ἐπιγεγράφθαι, καθάπερ ἔνιοι τὸ Διοκλέους ἐπιγράφουσι καὶ Φιλοτίμου καὶ Μαντίου. γεγραφότων γὰρ καὶ τούτων τῶν ἀνδρῶν εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν ὑπόθεσιν, ἐν ἑκάστῳ βιβλίῳ, ἐν μὲν τοῖς πλείστοις ἡ ἐπιγραφὴ χωρὶς τῆς προθέσεώς ἐστι καὶ τοῦ ἄρθρου κατ’ ἰητρεῖον ἀπλῶς ἐπιγεγραμμένων αὐτῶν, ἐν ὀλίγοις δὲ σύν τε τῇ προθέσει καὶ τῷ ἄρθρῳ περὶ τῶν κατ’ ἰητρεῖον. ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν τούτων βιβλία πλείονα θεωρήματα διδάσκει, τὸ δὲ Ἱπποκράτους μετὰ τὸν κατάλογον ἐξ ὧν ἡ χειρουργία συμπληροῦται, τὸν περὶ τῆς ἐπιδέσεως λόγον διέρχεται, τοῦτο πρῶτον ἀξιοῦντος ἀσκεῖσθαι τἀνδρός. καὶ μέντοι καὶ δύναται ἡ ἄσκησις αὐτοῦ γίγνεσθαι, μάλιστα μὲν ἐπὶ ξύλων ἐγγεγλυμμένων ἐς ἀνθρώπων ἰδέαν, εἰ δὲ μὴ, κατὰ γε τὰ τῶν παιδίων σώματα. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν αὐτὸ τὸ βιβλίον ἠνάγκασεν ἡμᾶς πρὸ τῶν κατὰ μέρος ἐξηγήσεων εἰπεῖν. ἃ δὲ οὐκέτι τὸ βιβλίον,…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg101.local001/#tlg0057-tlg101-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg101.local001/#tlg0057-tlg101-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg101.local001/#tlg0057-tlg101-local001-3"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg101.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg101.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg101/local001.json.gz"}}