Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 9

HIPPOCRATES (ca. 460 B.C.-ca. 368 B.C.) Upon air, water, and situation; Upon epidemical diseases; and Upon prognosticks, in acute cases especially. Printed for J. Watts 1734 [8] xxiv [18] 389 [1] pp. 18.9 cm.

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Francis Clifton (d. 1736) has here translated three of Hippocrates works into English: De aére, aquis, et locis; Prognostica; and De morbis acutis. Clifton has also included the biography of Hippocrates written by Soranus of Cos, the Hippocratic oath, and Thucydides' account of the plague of Athens. Clifton received degrees from Oxford, Leiden, and Cambridge. He practiced medicine in London and wrote on physiology and medical history. He was also physician to the Prince of Wales, a fellow of the College of Physicians and a fellow of the Royal Society. The University of Iowa Libraries' copy is wanting the first preliminary leaf which contains the portrait of Hippocrates.

Cited references: Osler 158; Wellcome III, p. 270