Coan Prenotions. Anatomical and Minor Clinical Writings

by Hippocrates

Overview

This is the ninth volume in the Loeb Classical Library’s ongoing edition of Hippocrates’ invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Here Paul Potter presents the Greek text with facing English translation of eleven treatises, four previously unavailable in English, that illuminate Hippocratic medicine in such areas as anatomy, physiology, prognosis and clinical signs, obstetrics, and ophthalmology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674996403
Publisher:	Harvard
Publication date:	05/31/2010
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #509
Pages:	397
Sales rank:	1,060,352
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 6.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Paul Potter is Chair of the Department of the History of Medicine, University of Western Ontario.