Hippocrates, Vol. VIII (Loeb Classical Library)

detailed discussion of how the practitioner can best understand and profit from the signs that appear in a large selection of specific diseases.

The third group consists of five practical manuals on specific facets of Hippocratic surgical practice. Physician outlines professional behavior and gives instructions on setting up an office and on the performance of bandaging, incising, and cautery. Use of Liquids discusses the external application of fresh water, salt water, vinegar, and wines. Ulcers lays down the principles and practice by which external lesions are to be evaluated and healed. Haemorrhoids and Fistulas summarize the pathology and treatment of hemorrhoids and condylomas, and of fistula in ano and its complications, respectively.

Manuscript Tradition

The stemma codicum family tree of manuscripts appearing as Fig. 1 provides an overview of the interdependencies among the manuscripts containing the works in this volume. This is not, however,

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² Folios 46, 49, 55–78 and 80–308; see A. Rivier, Recherches sur la tradition manuscrite du traité hippocratique “De morbo sacro,” original: "Research on the manuscript tradition of the Hippocratic treatise 'On the Sacred Disease'" Berne, 1962, pp. 97 ff.