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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) ON THE HEMORRHOIDS OR PILES. - The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen
ON THE HEMORRHOIDS OR PILES. - Hippocrates, The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen [1846]Edition used:The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen. Epitomised from the Original Latin translations, by John Redman Coxe (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1846).
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- Abstract of Hippocrates: to the Reader.
- Arrangement of the Writings of Hippocrates.
- Introduction.
- The Works of Hippocrates.
- Section I. The Oath of Hippocrates.
- The Law of Hippocrates.
- On the Art of Medicine.
- The Art of Medicine In Former Times.
- Of the Physician.
- On Decency In Manners and In Dress.
- Precepts of Hippocrates.
- Section II. A: the Book of Prognostics.
- Hippocrates On the Humours. a
- Hippocrates On Crises.
- Of Critical Days, Or of What Has a Relation to Crises.
- Predictions Or Prognostics.
- The Coan Prognostics.
- Appendix. of the Diseases Incident to Different Ages.
- Section III. A: On the Nature of Man.
- On Generation.
- On the FŒtal Nature.
- On the Origin of Man.
- On the Seven-month Birth.
- Of an Eight-month Birth.
- On SuperfŒtation.
- On Dentition.
- Of the Heart.
- On the Glands.
- On the Nature of the Bones.
- On Airs, Waters, and Localities.
- Parallel Between the Asiatics and Europeans.
- Of Flatus.
- Of Epilepsy.
- Section IV.: On a Healthy Diet.
- On Regimen. In Three Books.
- On Dreams.
- Of Aliment.
- The Rationale of Food In Acute Diseases.
- On the Different Parts of Man.
- Of the Employment of Liquids.
- Section V.: On Diseases.
- On Affections. a
- Of Internal Affections.
- Of Diseases of Virgins.
- Of the Nature of Woman.
- Of Female Diseases.
- On Barrenness.
- On Vision.
- Section VI. A: On the Shop Or Office of the Physician.
- On Fractures.
- On the Joints.
- On the Reduction of Fractures and Luxations.
- On Ulcers.
- On FistulÆ.
- On the Hemorrhoids Or Piles.
- On Wounds of the Head.
- On the Extraction of the Dead FŒtus.
- On Dissections.
- Section VII. A: the Epidemics of Hippocrates.
- The First Book of Epidemics.
- The Third Book of Epidemics.
- Pestilential Constitution
- Thucydides Upon the Plague At Athens.
- Clifton’s Proof of This Not Being That Described By Hippocrates
- The Second Book of Epidemics.
- The Fourth Book of Epidemics.
- The Fifth Book of Epidemics.
- The Sixth Book of Epidemics.
- The Seventh Book of Epidemics.
- The Book of Aphorisms.
- Section VIII.: Extraneous.
- EpistolÆ Hippocratis.
- I.: Liber De Hominis Structura, Ad Perdiccam Regem.
- II.: De Natura Hominis.
- III.: Liber De Ætate.
- IV.: De Septimestri Partu, Liber Spurius.
- V.: De Significatione VitÆ Et Mortis, Secundum Motum LunÆ, Et Adspectus Planetarum.
- VI.: Liber De Medicamentis Purgantibus.
- VII.: De Veratri Usu.
- VIII.: De Antidoto.
- IX.: Antidotum.
- X.: De Re Veterinaria.
- An Abstract of the Writings of Galen.
- Introductory Remarks.
- The Works of Galen.
- The Introductory Treatises of Galen.
- I.: Oratio Suasoria Ad Artes.
- II.: Si Quis Optimus Medicus Est, Eundem Esse Philosophus.
- III.: De Sophismatis In Verbo Contingentibus.
- IV.: Quod Qualitates IncorporeÆ Sint.
- V.: De Libris Propriis Galeni.
- VI.: De Ordine Librorum Suorum.
- VII.: De Sectis.
- VIII.: Galeni, De Optima Secta.
- IX.: De Optimo Docendi Genere.
- X.: De Subfiguratione Empirica.
- XI.: Sermo Adversus Empiricos Medicos.
- XII.: De Constitutione Artis MedicÆ.
- XIII.: Finitiones MedicÆ.
- XIV.: Introductio Vel Medicus.
- XV.: Quomodo Morbum Simulantes Sint Deprehendendi.
- XVI.: Ars Medicinalis.
- Class I.: Physiology, Anatomy, Etc.
- Class II.: Hygiene.
- Class III.: Ætiology.
- Class IV.: Semeiotics.
- Class V.: Of Pharmacy.
- Class VI.: Of the Instruments of Clinical Practice. a
- Class VII.: Therapeutics.
- Additional Class. a
- Spurii Galeno Ascripti Libri. a
- Fragments.
- Liste Des Livres De Galien, Tirée De L’édition De Chartier.
ON THE HEMORRHOIDS OR PILES.
| “Hoc est, de Venis in ano sanguinem fundere solitis.”—Fœsius. | | DE HEMORRHOIDIBUS, | FŒSIUS, Treat. vii. p. 891. | | DE HEMORRHOIDIBUS, | HALLER, iv. p. 122. | | TRAITÉ DES HÉMORROÏDES, | GARDEIL, iv. p. 358. |
Although, says Haller, this is a spurious book, it is by no means a bad one. It cannot be a writing from the author of the Aphorisms, since there, one of the tumours is directed to be kept open; whilst here, the whole are cured. Pituita and bile are the foundation of the author’s theory. Various means of cure recommended; acrid applications, and even the cautery.
Of the formation of hemorrhoids, and of their treatment by incision, ligature, cautery; how to distinguish hemorrhoidal tumours. A styptic composed of urine, mixed with calcined copper-filings in a copper vessel, and exposed to the sun, frequently stirring it, until dry, then powder it finely, and sprinkle slightly on each incision. Mulberry tubercles, external and internal; treatment; speculum ani (ϰατοπτηρος);—here, reference is made (in order to explain why so little discharge of blood follows the falling off of the tumours) to amputation of the legs or arms at the joints, when compared with the operation either above or below; the particular analogy would be difficult to apprehend, even with the accompanying explanation! Cauterization seems to have been employed internally, through the medium of a canula of some kind introduced. The tumours, when burning or cutting were deemed improper, were sometimes made to extrude, and were then sprinkled with a mixture of myrrh, galls, and alum, calcined. Some other analogous preparations are given.
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