PREFACE

...that I have dedicated my work and study not only to Hippocrates on this journey, but also to other Greek physicians, and have prepared the long-desired edition of Oribasius and Aetius Oribasius (c. 320–403 AD) and Aetius of Amida (6th century AD) were influential Greek medical compilers whose works preserved many lost writings of earlier doctors..

Since a work extending through nineteen volumes, containing a very great variety of matters, cannot lack a very copious index of subjects without a great loss of utility, I thought that the proper preparation of this too must be seen to. Therefore, since I did not have the leisure to exhaust this tedious labor, I asked Friedrich Wilhelm Assmann, a most learned man and a most worthy candidate for the highest honors of the medical art, to allow this burden to be placed upon himself. He willingly took it upon himself, and there is a most joyful hope that the index will be completed within the space of this year. In preparing this index, he did not rely on the one added to the Latin version of Galen's works published in Basel in 1562. Nor will he imitate the excessive, or even tedious, long-windedness in which Antonio Musa Brassavola Antonio Musa Brassavola (1500–1555) was an Italian physician known for his extensive commentaries and indexes of Galen's work. placed the excellence of his labor. Instead, having diligently read through all the volumes of Galen from the beginning to the end original: "ab ovo ad calcem," literally "from the egg to the heel.", he noted down the things most worthy of mention and arranged them in a proper order.

Besides Galen, there have appeared, as parts of my collection of Greek physicians, Hippocrates, Aretaeus, and Dioscorides. The illustrious KURT SPRENGEL Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766–1833) was a famous German botanist and historian of medicine. took care of the edition of Dioscorides and provided it with a most learned commentary. The same man, in the next year—if, as is most greatly to be desired, God Best and Greatest grants him firm health—is about to edit Paul of Aegina. Meanwhile, the illustrious CHRISTIAN AUGUSTUS WEIGEL will edit Aetius of Amida. Weigel has dedicated much work to Aetius since the year 1791, when he published a specimen of his Aetian Exercises. He intends to provide this edition with an ample critical apparatus...