HIPPOCRATES’S EPIDEMICS, BOOK 1, AND GALEN’S FIRST COMMENTARY ON IT

Galen’s Preface. In this book, Hippocrates of Cos original: "Hippocrates Cous" did not set out to discuss the diseases that are specific to each individual region, as he indeed has done at other times. His entire discourse is instead concerned with the diseases called "epidemic." This term refers to those diseases that fall upon the people of a district all at once. These differ from local diseases The Latin text uses "vernaculis," referring to diseases naturally occurring in or "native" to a specific place. because epidemic diseases, for a certain time, [2] possess a certain...