Hardcover
This volume, the tenth of Hippocrates’ invaluable texts on the practice of medicine in antiquity, provides essential information about human reproduction and reproductive disorders and expounds a general theory of physiology and pathology, in five Greek treatises presented with facing English translation.
Hippocrates, Volume X
Generation. Nature of the Child. Diseases 4. Nature of Women. Barrenness
- Hardcover
464 pages
- Release Date
22 October 2012
Summary
This is the tenth volume in the Loeb Classical Library’s ongoing edition of Hippocrates’ invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Here, Paul Potter presents the Greek text with facing English translation of five treatises, four concerning human reproduction (Generation, Nature of the Child) and reproductive disorders (Nature of Women, Barrenness), and one (<…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674996830 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0674996836 |
| Author: | Hippocrates, Paul Potter |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Loeb Classical Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 162mm x 108mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Loeb Classical Library |
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Hippocrates
Paul Potter (1944–2025) was Chair of the Department of the History of Medicine, University of Western Ontario.
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