Stories
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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On contagion
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
![Hippocrates upon Air, water, and situation; upon Epidemical diseases; and upon Prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To this is added (by way of comparison) Thucydidesʼs Account of the plague of Athens / The whole translated, methodisʼd, and illustrated with useful and explanatory notes by Francis Clifton. [With life of Hippocrates from Soranus].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/M0010720/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Hippocrates upon Air, water, and situation; upon Epidemical diseases; and upon Prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To this is added (by way of comparison) Thucydidesʼs Account of the plague of Athens / The whole translated, methodisʼd, and illustrated with useful and explanatory notes by Francis Clifton. [With life of Hippocrates from Soranus].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0041091/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
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Medical theories in Hippocrates : early texts and the "Epidemics" / by Volker Langholf.
Langholf, Volker, 1940-Date: 1990- Books
Commentary on Hippocrates' Epidemics VI fragments / John of Alexandria ; edition, translation and notes by John M. Duffy.
Johannes, Alexandrinus, active 600-642.Date: [1997], ©1997- Books
Epidemics in context : Greek commentaries on Hippocrates in the Arabic tradition / edited by Peter E. Pormann.
Date: 2012
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A comment on forty two histories discribed by Hippocrates in the first and third books of his Epidemics. In the first part Hippocrates's pathology is explained, and defended ... In the second part are fourteen histories of the first book of the Epidemics. In the third part are twenty eight histories of the third book of the Epidemics. The general method of curing an epidemical fever is deduced from Hippocrates's histories ... To which is added a Letter [to Dr. John Gibson], to shew that Hippocrates mentions a year of 360 days, which Daniel used, chap. ix. and that prophecy is explained from the copy of it in the Septuagint ... / [Sir John Floyer].
Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734.Date: 1726- Books
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Commentary on Hippocrates' Epidemics Book II. Parts I-III = In Hippocratis Epidemiarum Librum II, Commentariorum I-III, versionem Arabicam / Galen ; edition of the Arabic version and English translation by Uwe Vagelpohl with Simon Swain.
GalenDate: 2016
