Medical Compendium: Galen and Hippocrates

...constitution through? practical life so as not to be affected by the fever; for this is?...

For the Silent Treatise is a meager writing, but regarding the discussion of pulses, one commands oneself thus: for he will teach their redundant essence in their differences, and the cause within the causes. Galen’s works, however, are not like this; whence the cause of this is clearer; for what I said before must be balanced with the treatment against the fever.

For they cast the burning heat upon the body, and as men perceive certain distinct changes toward either the thicker or thinner, the broader and thinner parts resulting from them are not the essence of the fever or an excess of such a result; rather, the quality is the essence of the fever, and the burning heat belongs to the cause. How it is not necessary for Galen to teach this himself, but rather the doctors, to whom it belongs to perceive and diagnose these things—for these are perhaps their cause—while others are diagnosed according to the movements of the pulses...

... For our effect, which is the offspring of the things upon the healed parts, which also must be balanced original: "ἐπισωστέα." A technical term for clinical stabilization or bringing a patient's humors back into a state of equilibrium.. The most appropriate, most natural, and most authoritative is the logical approach toward the differences, which Galen? treats by the same species, those according to the "more and the less," or those changed according to species.

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A difference of fevers happens? also from the watery original: "ὕδατος." Refers to the aqueous substance or fluid balance within the body's humors. essence?; for whence...

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it is mostly witnessed; for one must attribute these afflictions? to the heart as the cause of causes.

...at least the fluid from there; it is the mixture original: "κρᾶσις." The blending of the four humors—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile—which determines an individual's health and temperament. of the bilious original: "χολώδους." Related to yellow bile, associated with heat and the summer season. fluid?; in the body of the body there will be more than the things occurring in the fluid?...

It will imitate a certain grace of the principle and the things of nature?... the mixtures according to the body? are the majority; but in the feverish original: "πυρετικῷ." Pertaining to a state of fever or systemic inflammation. affliction?; and in power it is located in the fluid?.

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... having a cause original: "αἰτίαν." In the Aristotelian and Galenic tradition, identifying the 'cause' is the first step of true medical science.; we examined? the species and the afflictions of the artery? and it is in the pulse original: "σφυγμῷ." The expansion and contraction of the heart and arteries, which Byzantine doctors used to judge the "vital heat." itself and the species of the fever?... the principle of nature?.

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Similarly also in the case of cancers original: "καρκίνων." Literally "crabs," so named because the swollen veins around a hard tumor were thought to resemble a crab's legs. there is much melancholy original: "μελαγχολία." Literally "black bile." When this humor became thick and cold, it was believed to cause depression and physical tumors. in the liver original: "ἤπατι." Regarded in this period as the primary organ for blood production. persisting? upon the hard tumor?; in the body it abounds?, and in those where lettuce-like growths original: "θρίδακας." Likely a descriptive term comparing the texture of an abscess to a lettuce head, or referring to the cooling lettuce used as a treatment for such heat. [appear], as in an abscess within the spleen itself?. Similarly also for those sailing [the seas], choleric original: "χολερὰ." Severe digestive upsets or "cholera" in the ancient sense, caused by an overflow of yellow bile. afflictions happen due to the bile?; for nature is most well-disposed? and makes doctors safe?.

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in this, and melancholy and the? scirrhus original: "σκιρρὸς." A hard, painless swelling or induration, often considered a precursor to cancer. are called incurable by the doctors?.

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melancholic fluid?; if this abounds, it also makes the abscess in the? spleen original: "σπλήνι." The organ responsible for clearing black bile from the blood. into a melancholic swelling?; but if this should be in the liver?, it makes a scirrhus, while the stomach produces wasting diseases?, this being in the spleen?.

Similarly also in the case of inflammations original: "φλεγμονῶν." Specifically, the localized heat and swelling caused by the rush of blood to a part of the body. the difference happens?...

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Regarding the melancholic [person] for there is no notable need?...