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THE LIBRARY
OF
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES
D i> MARSHALL
in 2013
the
GENUINE WORKS
OF
HIPPOCRATES
TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK
WITH
A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE AND ANNOTATIONS
BY
FKANCIS ADAMS, LL.D.
SURGEON
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I
NEW YOEK
WILLIAM WOOD AND COMPANY
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Book. Composition and Electrotyping Co.,
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TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
The Council of the Sydenham Society having done me the honor of consulting me respecting a proposed volume of translations from the
Works of Hippocrates, I ventured to give it as my opinion that such a selection ought to comprehend the whole of those Treatises which are now regarded as genuine; and this suggestion having been approved of, I
was appointed to the task of translating and editing them according to the best of my judgment. The design, then, of the present Work, 1 is to give a translation of all the genuine remains of the Great Hippocrates, along with such an amount of illustration as may be sufficient to render them intelligible to any well-educated member of the profession at the present day. It was understood, indeed, when I first engaged in this undertaking, that I was merely to give a faithful translation of the original; but I soon became satisfied, that a considerable amount of illustration, in the form of Annotati…