Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 10

HIPPOCRATES (ca. 460 B.C.E.-ca. 368 B.C.E.) Hippocratis coi medicorum omnium longe principis, octaginta voluminal, quibus maxima ex part, annorum circiter duo millia Latina caruit lingua, Graeci uero, Arabes, & prisci nostril medici, plurimis tamen utilibus praetermissis, scripta sua illustrarunt, nunc tandem per M. Fabium Calvum Rhauennatemuirum undecunq, doctissimum latinate donata, Clementi VII. Pont. Max. dicata, ac nunc primum in lucem aedita, quo nihil humano generi salubrious fieri potuit. Ex aedibus Francisci Minitii Calvi 1525 [lxxxiii] dccxxxiii [ii] pp. 29 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 edition princeps of the Greek texts was published in 1526. These eighty texts, 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 Littre (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.