{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0627.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg001.local001","title":"De prisca medicina","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Hippocrates","authorityName":"HIPPOCRATES Med. et CORPUS HIP-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0627-hippocrates-med-et-corpus-hip/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0627-hippocrates-med-et-corpus-hip/","editors":["Émile Littré"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate","edition":null,"publisher":"Baillière","place":"Paris","date":"1839","volume":"1","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. 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Ὁχόσοι ἐπεχείρησαν περὶ ἰητριχῆς λέγειν ἢ γράφειν, ὑπόθεσιν᾿ σφίσιν αὐτέοισιν ὑποθέμενοι τῷ λόγῳ, θερμὸν, ἢ ψυχρὸν, ἢ ὑγρὸν, ἢ ξηρὸν, ἢ ἄλλ᾿ ὅ τι ἂν ἐθέλωσιν, ἐς βραχὺ ἄγοντες, τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς αἰτίης τοῖσιν ἀνθρώποισι τῶν νούσων τε καὶ τοῦ θανάτου, καὶ πᾶσι τὴν αὐτέην, ἓν ἢ δύο προθέμενοι, ἐν πολλοῖσι μὲν καὶ οἷσι λέγουσι καταφανέες εἰσὶν ἁμαρτάνοντες· μάλιστα δὲ ἄξιον μέμψασθαι, ὅτι ἀμφὶ τέχνης ἐούσης, ᾗ χρέονταί τε πάντες ἐπὶ τοῖσι μεγίστοισι καὶ τιμῶσι μάλιστα τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς χειροτέχνας καὶ δημιουργούς. Εἰσὶ δὲ δημιουργοὶ, οἱ μὲν φλαῦροι, οἱ δὲ πολλὸν διαφέροντες· ὅπερ, εἰ μὴ ἦν ἰητρικὴ ὅλως, μηδ᾿ ἐν αὐτέῃ ἔσκεπτο, μηδ᾿ εὕροιτο μηδὲν, οὐκ ἂν ἦν, ἀλλὰ πάντες ἂν ὁμοίως αὐτέης ἄπειροί τε καὶ ἀνεπιστήμονες ἦσαν, καὶ τύχῃ ἂν πάντα τὰ τῶν καμνόντων διῳκέετο. Νῦν δ᾿οὐχ οὕτως ἔχει, ἀλλ᾿ ὥσπερ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τεχνέων χνέων πασέων οἱ δημιουργοὶ πολλὸν ἀλλήλων διαφέρουσι κατὰ χεῖρα καὶ κατὰ…","divisions":[{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΑΡΧΑΙΗΣ ΙΗΤΡΙΚΗΣ.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-21"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-22"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-23"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/#tlg0627-tlg001-local001-24"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0627.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}