Medical theories in Hippocrates : early texts and the "Epidemics" / by Volker Langholf.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Langholf, Volker, 1940-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1990.
Series:Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ; Bd. 34.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I. Medical Practice and â€?Schoolsâ€? in Pre-Alexandrian Times: Kos and Knidos
  • II. Methods of Cognition in the Oldest Hippocratic Texts: Some Early Doctrines
  • III. The Epidemics Treatises
  • 1. krÃsis and Critical Days
  • 2. Precursors and Applicability of the krÃsis Doctrine
  • 3. Research Methods Traceable in the Epidemics
  • IV. Prognosis and Divination
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Bibliography
  • Addendum
  • Index of Passages
  • General Index.