INTRODUCTION

Erotian lists this work in his preface among the therapeutic works and includes thirty-two words from it in his GlossaryErotian, p. 9; see Nachmanson, pp. 331–39.; four of these glosses cite Bacchius of Tanagra, suggesting that the treatise was already considered Hippocratic by the third century B.C.Erotian A58, Γ8, K18, and M9.

Galen’s Glossary contains several words referable to Places in Man, five with explicit references: original: "ὡς ἐν τῷ περὶ τόπων τῶν κατὰ ἄνθρωπον" "as in the work On Places in Man."Galen, vol. 19, 74, "alaia phthisis" (wasting consumption); 19, 103, "therion" (beast); 19, 107f., "kammoron" (deadly nightshade); 19, 114, "kremnoi" (cliffs/cavities); and 19, 118, "lepta" (fine particles). Galen also quotes many times from the treatise in his other writings, often, however, without naming his source.For a detailed study of Galen’s ambivalent attitude to Places in Man, see Schubring, pp. 61–70.

Caelius Aurelianus’ (fifth century) Latin translation of Soranus’ Chronic Diseases refers directly to chapter 22 of Places in Man in discussing the treatment of sciatica: “Hippocrates in his book On Places employs cupping without scarification. He also prescribes the drinking of hot drugs.”Caelius, pp. 920f. The continued visibility of Places in Man in the Middle Ages is attested by its citation by the Byzantine excerptor of Rufus of Ephesus's Names of the Parts of the Body.