Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 12

HIPPOCRATES (ca. 460 B.C.-ca. 368 B.C.) Oeuvres complètes. Traduction nouvelle avec le texte grec. Par É. Littré. J. B. Baillière 1839-1861 21 cm.

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The large body of medical writings attributed to Hippocrates and his school were first definitively edited in the third century B.C. for the library of Alexandria. Some manuscript fragments of works dating from the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries still exist but the first printed Latin edition did not appear until 1525 (see No. 10). Various selections from the body of these works have been printed many times since then. Émile Littré's (1801-1881) monumental work, said to have occupied him for twenty-two years, is the modern source for the entire Hippocratic Collection. His objective was to make the Hippocratic works as easily readable and understandable as a contemporary book and his French translation confirms that hope. The vast size of the work and the extensive notes and references make this a monument to his industry and scholarship.

See Related Record(s): 10

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 13; Osler 147; Waller 4494; Wellcome III, p. 269

Gift of John Martin, M.D.