Hippocrates, Prognosticon, ed. Émile Littré, 13

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13. Ἔμετος δὲ ὠφελιμώτατος ὁ φλέγματος καὶ χολῆς ξυμμεμιγμένων ὅτι μάλιστα· καὶ μὴ παχὺς κάρτα, μηδὲ πολὺς ἐμεέσθω·
οἱ γὰρ ἀκρητέστεροι κακίους εἰσίν. Εἰ δὲ εἴη τὸ ἐμεύμενον
πρασοειδὲς, ἢ πελιὸν, ἢ μέλαν, ὅ τι ἂν ᾖ τουτέων τῶν χρωμάτων,
νομίζειν χρὴ πονηρὸν εἶναι· εἰ δὲ καὶ πάντα τὰ χρώματα δ ωὀτὸς
ἄνθρωπος ἐμέοι, κάρτα ὀλέθριον τοῦτο γίγνεται· τάχιστον δὲ
θάνατον σημαίνει τὸ πελιὸν τῶν ἐμεσμάτων, εἰ ὄζει δυσῶδες.
Πᾶσαι δὲ αἱ ὑπόσαπροι καὶ δυσώδεες ὀσμαὶ κακαὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσι τοῖσιν ἐμεομένοισιν.

Prognosticon. Hippocrates. ed. Émile Littré. Paris. 1840.

Funding provided by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Prognosticon (Greek) (Hippocrates. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Vol. 2. Littré, Émile, editor. Paris: Baillière, 1840)

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Προγνωστικόν Perseus (Hippocrates. Oeuvres complètes d’Hippocrate, Vol. 2. Littré, Émile, editor. Adolf M. Hakkert: Amsterdam, 1961 (printing).) — 13 focus

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ἔμετος δὲ ὠφελιμώτατος ὁ φλέγματος καὶ χολῆς ξυμμεμιγμένων ὅτι μάλιστα· καὶ μὴ παχὺς κάρτα, μηδὲ πολὺς ἐμεέσθω· οἱ γὰρ ἀκρητέστεροι κακίους εἰσίν. εἰ δὲ εἴη τὸ ἐμεύμενον πρασοειδὲς, ἢ πελιὸν, ἢ μέλαν, ὅ τι ἂν ᾖ τουτέων τῶν χρωμάτων, νομίζειν χρὴ πονηρὸν εἶναι· εἰ δὲ καὶ πάντα τὰ χρώματα ὁ ωὐτὸς ἄνθρωπος ἐμέοι, κάρτα ὀλέθριον τοῦτο γίγνεται· τάχιστον δὲ θάνατον σημαίνει τὸ πελιὸν τῶν ἐμεσμάτων, εἰ ὄζει δυσῶδες. πᾶσαι δὲ αἱ ὑπόσαπροι καὶ δυσώδεες ὀσμαὶ κακαὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσι τοῖσιν ἐμεομένοισιν.

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Of the Prognostics Perseus (Hippocrates, The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Vol. 1. Adams, Francis, translator. New York: William Wood and Company, 1886.) — 13 focus

[13] That vomiting is of most service which consists of phlegm and bile mixed together, and neither very thick nor in great quantity; but those vomitings which are more unmixed are worse. But if that which is vomited be of the color of leeks or livid, or black, whatever of these colors it be, it is to be reckoned bad; but if the same man vomit all these colors, it is to be reckoned a very fatal symptom. But of all the vomitings, the livid indicates the danger of death, provided it be of a fetid smell. But all the smells which are somewhat putrid and fetid, are bad in all vomitings.

Hippocrates Prognosticon 13

ed. Émile Littré

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