Hippocrates, Vol. II (Loeb Classical Library)

was, in the opinion of the Hippocratic writer, an improvement on the first. The critic alleges that the Cnidians attached too little importance to prognosis, and too much to the discussion of unessential details; that their treatment was faulty,¹ We have a specimen of it in their treatment of pus in the lung; Kühn I. 128: original: "ἐξέλκοντες τὴν γλῶτταν ἐνίεσάν τι εἰς τὴν ἀρτηρίαν ὑγρὸν τὸ σφοδρὰν βῆχα κινῆσαι δυνάμενον." (Drawing out the tongue, they would inject into the windpipe a liquid capable of exciting a violent cough.) and the number of remedies employed by them in chronic complaints was far too small;² They were purges, whey and milk. that they carried the classification of diseases to extremes,³ See Galen XV. 427 and 363. holding that a difference in symptoms constituted a different variety of disease.

The chief Cnidian physician was Euryphon, almost contemporary with Hippocrates, and according to Galen⁴ XVII., Pt. I. 886. the author of Cnidian Sentences. Possibly he wrote one if not two of the works in the Corpus⁵ See W. A. Greenhill’s article “Euryphon” in Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, and also that in Pauly-Wissowa by M. Wellmann. The passage quoted by Galen (XVII., Pt. I. 888) is found in Diseases II. Chapter XLVIII (Littré VII. 104)., as passages from two of them appear to be attributed to Euryphon by Galen and Soranus respectively.

The question of Cnidian tenets assumes a greater importance from the number of works in the Corpus which have been assigned to Cnidian authors by various critics. When a passage found in the Hippocratic collection is assigned to a Cnidian author by ancient authorities it is natural to assume that the whole book in which the passage occurs, and any other books closely related to it, are also