Tue text used is (with a few unimportant modifications) that of Kiihn (Vol. ll), as edited by Georg
Helmreich; Teubner, Leipzig, 1893. The numbers of the pages of Kiihn's edition are printed at the side of the Greek text, a parallel mark (II) in the line indicating the exact point of division between
Kiihn's pages.
Words in the English text which are enclosed in
"square brackets are supplementary or explanatory;
practically all explanations, however, are relegated to the footnotes or introduction. In the footnotes, also, attention is drawn to words which are of particular philological interest from the point of view of modern medicine.
I have made the translation directly from the
Greek; where passages of special difficulty occurred,
I have been able to compare my own version with
Linacre's Latin translation (1523) and the French rendering of Charles Daremberg (1854-56); in this respect I am also peculiarly fortunate in having had the help of Mr. A. W. Pickard Cambridge of Balliol
College, Oxford, who most kindly went through the
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proofs and made many valuable suggestions from the point of view of exact scholarship.
My best thanks are due to the Editors for their courtesy and for the kindly interest they have taken in the work. I have also gratefully to acknowledge the receipt of much assistance and encouragement from Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medi…