The Complete Harvard Classics - All 51 Volumes in One Edition stands as a monumental anthology that intricately weaves the profound tapestry of Western thought. Within its extensive bounds lie the myriad voices of the West'Äôs most illustrious thinkers, dramatists, poets, and philosophers. From the philosophical musings of Plato and Descartes to the poetic eloquence of Dante and Shakespeare, this collection avails an unparalleled voyage through time and discipline. While each volume contai...

Whoever having undertaken to speak or write on Medicine, have first laid down for Themselves some hypoThesis to Their argument, such as hot, or cold, or moist, or dry, or whatever else They choose (thus reducing Their subject within a narrow compass, and supposing only one or two original causes of diseases or of death among mankind), are all clearly mistaken in much that They say; and this is The more reprehensible as relating to an art which all men avail Themselves of on The most import...

Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, known simply as the Father of Western medicine in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of medicine. This intellectual school revolutionized medici...

in THASUS, about The autumn equinox, and under The Pleiades, The rains were abundant, constant, and soft, with souTherly winds; The winter souTherly, The norTherly winds faint, droughts; on The whole, The winter having The character of spring. The spring was souTherly, cool, rains small in quantity. Summer, for The most part, cloudy, no rain, The Etesian winds, rare and small, blew in an irregular manner. The whole constitution of The season being thus inclined to The souTherly, and with d...

With regard to The construction of bones, The bones and joints of The fingers are simple, The bones of The hand and foot are numerous, and articulated in various ways; The uppermost are The largest; The heel consists of one bone which is seen to project outward, and The back tendons are attached to it. The leg consists of two bones, united togeTher above and below, but slightly separated in The middle; The external bone (fibula), where it comes into proximity with The little toe, is but sl...

The Genuine Works of Hippocrates Vol. 1 (of 2) is a foundational collection of medical writings attributed to Hippocrates, often regarded as the Father of Medicine. This volume, translated from the original Greek by Francis Adams, presents a comprehensive selection of treatises that have shaped the course of Western medicine for centuries. The works included cover a wide range of topics, from the ethical principles guiding medical practice to detailed observations on diseases, treatments, ...

Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed thus: in The first place to consider The seasons of The year, and what effects each of Them produces for They are not at all alike, but differ much from Themselves in regard to Their changes. Then The winds, The hot and The cold, especially such as are common to all countries, and Then such as are peculiar to each locality. We must also consider The qualities of The waters, for as They differ from one another in taste and weig...

Men’s heads are by no means all like to one another, nor are the sutures of the head of all men constructed in the same form. Thus, whoever has a prominence in the anterior part of the head (by prominence is meant the round protuberant part of the bone which projects beyond the rest of it), in him the sutures of the head take the form of the Greek letter tau, T; for the head has the shorter line running transverse before the prominence, while the Other line runs through the middle of the h...

Ptisan, then, appears to me to be justly preferred before all the Other preparations from grain in these diseases, and I commend those who made this choice, for the mucilage of it is smooth, consistent, pleasant, lubricant, moderately diluent, quenches thirst if this be required, and has no astringency; gives no trouble nor swells up in the bowels, for in the boiling it swells up as much as it naturally can. Those, then, who make use of ptisan in such diseases, should never for a day allow...

It is thus with regard to The disease called Sacred: it appears to me to be nowise more divine nor more sacred than Other diseases, but has a natural cause from The originates like Other affections. Men regard its nature and cause as divine from ignorance and wonder, because it is not at all like to Other diseases. and this notion of its divinity is kept up by Their inability to comprehend it, and The simplicity of The mode by which it is cured, for men are freed from it by purifications a...

Hippocrates of Kos (c. 460 - c. 370 BC) was a Greek physician of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is traditionally referred to as the “Father of Medicine” and the Hippocratic school of medicine revolutionized ancient Greek medicine, establishing it as a discipline distinct from other fields with which it had traditionally been associated (theurgy and philosophy), thus establishing medicine as a profession.Our p...

The disease of the hemorrhoids is formed in this way: if bile or phlegm be determined to the veins in the rectum, it heats the blood in the veins; and these veins becoming heated attract blood from the nearest veins, and being gorged the inside of the gut swells outwardly, and the heads of the veins are raised up, and being at the same time bruised by the faeces passing out, and injured by the blood collected in them, they squirt out blood, most frequently along with the faeces, but someti...