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On Airs, Waters, and Places By Hippocrates Written 400 B.C.E Translated by Francis Adams
In the book Airs, Waters, and Places, thought to have been written by Greek physician Hippocrates in the 5th or 4th century bce, the first systematic attempt was made to set forth a causal relationship between human diseases and the environment. Until the new sciences of bacteriology and…
On Airs, Waters, and Places. By Hippocrates. Written 400 B.C.E. Translated by Francis Adams. Part 8. I will now tell how it is with respect to rain-water, and water from snow. Rain waters, then, are the lightest, the sweetest, the thinnest, and the clearest; for originally the sun raises and attracts the thinnest and lightest part of the water ...
It is clear from the passages in Airs Waters Places where the phrase occurs that it may have either meaning. The notion underlying it is that of violent change in the weather. The reader should note the meanings of the following :
30. Nov. 2023 · On Airs, Waters, and Places, attributed to Hippocrates (c. 460 – c. 370 B.C), translated from Greek by W.H.S. Jones, from Loeb Classical Library volume L147 (New York, 1923), in 143 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. Attached to the document is a multilingual HTML version of the translation proper. Wikipedia has a main entry
Therefore, on arrival at a town with which he is unfamiliar, a physician should examine its position with respect to the winds and to the risings of the sun. For a northern, a southern, an eastern, and a western aspect has each its own individual property.
Hippocrates of Cos. Airs Waters Places. Erotian includes the title On Places and Seasons (περὶ τόπων καὶ ὡρῶν) in his introductory census of Hippocratic works, in the category “etiological and natural” (αἰτιολογικὰ δὲ καὶ φυσικά), and assigns one gloss (Ο 11) specifically to On Seasons and ...
