Hippocrates, Volume X: Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Barrenness

The definitive English edition of the “Father of Medicine.”

This is the tenth volume in the Loeb Classical Library’s 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 five treatises, four concerning human reproduction (Generation, Nature of the Child) and reproductive disorders (Nature of Women...