Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 10

HIPPOCRATES (ca. 460 B.C.-ca. 368 B.C.) Octaginta volumina, quibus maxima ex parte, annorum circiter duo millia Latina caruit lingua, Graeci vero, Arabes, & prisci nostri medici, plurimis tamen utilibus praetermissis scripta sua illustrarunt, nunc tandem per M. Fabium Calvum . . . Latinitate Ex aedibus Francisci Minitii Calvi 1525] [lxxxiii] dccxxxiii [ii] pp. 28.1 cm.

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Although various fragments of Hippocrates' works had been published earlier in Greek and Arabic versions, these eighty works, translated for the first time from the Greek texts into Latin by Marco Fabio Calvo (d. 1527), form the first so-called "complete" Hippocrates. The editio princeps of the Greek texts was published in 1526. These eighty texts, the most familiar of which is the Aphorisms, were probably written by a number of authors, but all are in the Hippocratic tradition. This historically important book, along with the massive French translation of Littré (see No. 12) in the nineteenth century, must be regarded as the definitive Hippocrates.

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Cited references: Durling 2320; Osler 149; Waller 4495; Wellcome 3177

Gift of John Martin, M.D.