Hippocrates De officina medici 1

Francis Adams (Translator)

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De officina medici. Hippocrates. Francis Adams (Translator). New York. 1886.

Funding provided by National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division.

Current edition Perseus

On the Surgery (English) (Hippocrates, The Genuine Works of Hippocrates, Vol. 2. Adams, Francis, translator. New York: William Wood and Company, 1886.)

Editions (2)
De officina medici First1KGreek (Hippocrates. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Vol. 3. Littré, Émile, editor. Paris: Baillière, 1841) — 1 focus
Κατ’ ἰητρεῖον Perseus (Hippocrates. Oeuvres complètes d’Hippocrate, Vol. 3. Littré, Émile, editor. Adolf M. Hakkert: Amsterdam, 1961 (printing).) — 1 focus

Notes on the current edition

On the Surgery

1. The meaning of the first clause of this sentence, according to Galen, is, that the first thing which the medical practitioner must do is to make himself well acquainted with semeiology, by comparing carefully the condition of disease with that of health. In all cases of accident, it was the practice of the ancient surgeons to compare carefully the injured part with its fellow or corresponding part on the opposite side.