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Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic Writings in the Latin Middle Ages (V)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

Pearl Kibre
Pearl Kibre*
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In the following pages the Repertorium of Hippocratic Writings in the Latin Middle Ages, begun in Traditio 31 (1975) 99–126 and continued in succeeding issues, resumes with a number of tracts which, though for the most part spurious, circulated under Hippocrates' name. Included are the so-called XX. Epistolae (communications regarding various aspects of medicine or medical history dating from before the ninth century to the fifteenth century), and the brief tracts entitled XXI. Epitomum, XXII. De Equis, XXIII. Experimenta, XXIV De Farmaciis, XXV De Febribus, XXVI. De Flatibus, XXVII. Gynaecia, XXVIII. De Herbis, and XXIX. De Humoribus. The number and variety of these texts provide ample evidence for the continued reverence for the noted physician of Cos.

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Traditio , Volume 35 , 1979 , pp. 273 - 302
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1 For discussions regarding the Epistolae, see Littré I 426–34, also VII v–l and IX 308ff.; Pasquali, G., Lettere ippocratee: Storia delta tradizione e critica dei testa (Florence 1934) especially 404–22, 423ff. Earlier works include: Putzger, W., ‘Hippocratis quae feruntur epistolae,’ Wiss. Beilage zum Jahresbericht des Gymnasiums in Wurzen (1914); Pohlenz, M., ‘Zu den Hippokratischen Briefen,’ Hermes 52 (1917) 340ff.; Philippson, R., ‘Verfasser und Abfassungszeit der sog. Hippokratesbriefe,’ Rheinisches Museum n.f. 77 (1928) 293–328; Nelson, A., ‘Zur pseudohippokratischen Epistula ad Antiochum Regem,’ in Symbolae philologicae O. A. Danielsson octogenario dicatae (Uppsala 1932) 203–17; CML V (1916) 10–13, ‘Epistola ad Antiochum’; CML (1928) 18–24. Other bibliography is cited by Pasquali, .Google Scholar

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1 See De quattuor humoribus below. The Epistola is cited in this form in the thirteenth century by Vincent of Beauvais, Spec. doct. lib. XIII cap. xvii ‘De humoribus. Ex Epist. Ypo.: Corpus igitur omne ex quatuor humoribus constitutum.’ Cf. items in TK 269–70.Google Scholar

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1 Hippocrates did deal with the subject of fevers in several of his works. See, for example, Aphorismi IV (Loeb IV [1959] 147–153); Epidemia I (Loeb I [1962] 181–85); and Natura Humana XV (Loeb IV [1959] 39–41).Google Scholar

1 See further Diels 21–22; Littré VI 90–114; TK 1211, 1539. Also Ermerius, F. Z., Hippocratis et aliorum medicorum reliquiae (Utrecht 1862) II 123–35; and Jones, W. H. S., Hippocrates: Breaths II (Loeb Classical Library; Cambridge, Mass. 1959) 221–53.Google Scholar

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