VI.: LIBER DE MEDICAMENTIS PURGANTIBUS. - Hippocrates, The Writings of Hippocrates and Galen [1846]
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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.
VI.
LIBER DE MEDICAMENTIS PURGANTIBUS.
Haller, iv. p. 238.
Some things herein, says Haller, are taken from the Aphorisms. A bold defence is set up for the doctrine of elective purgation, founded on the difference of the four humours.
The great variety in the operation of purgatives noticed. The same one at times operating powerfully, at other times, not at all. Sometimes what is not expected is discharged, or in smaller amount, &c. All which is explained, and leads to the division of purgatives into chologogues, &c., according as they act on the humours; and directions are laid down for the success of this: for, adds the author, it is a shameful misfortune to kill a man by super-purgation.
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