Hippocratic Writings
Francis Adams (1849)
The Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of some sixty Greek medical treatises associated with Hippocrates of Cos (c. 460–370 BC) and his school, marks the emergence of medicine as a rational discipline separate from religion and magic. The treatises gathered here — On Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, and Places, the Prognostics, Regimen in Acute Diseases, the Epidemics, and On Injuries of the Head — ground diagnosis and treatment in observation, environment, and the natural course of disease. Francis Adams's 1849 translation long served as the standard English rendering of these founding texts of Western medicine.
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