Hippocrates on airs, waters and places / the received Greek text of Littré, with Latin, French, and English translations by eminent scholars.

  • Hippocrates.
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1881
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    123. Les habitants de tarroirs legers, nus et sans eau,^ ou les changements des saisons ne sont pns temperes, out la constitution secho, •nervexise, et la coloration phitot blonde que brune; le vaturel y est enclin a I'arrogance et a. Vindocilite. Car la ou les saisons eprouvent les variations les plus considerables, et different le plus entre elles, la aussi vous aurez le plus de diversites dans I'habitude du corps, dans le naturel, et dans la constitution.^ ] 24. Ge sont ces causes qui modi- fient le plus profondement la nature humaine; puis viennent le sol d'oti Von tire la subsistance, et les eaux dont on use. Generalement, en effet, vous trouverez qu'a la nature du pays correspondent la forme du corps et les dispositions de I'dme.^ 125. Partout oil le sol est gras, mou et plein d'eau, oil les eaux,etant tres-superjicielles,* sont chaudes en ete et froides en hiver, oil les saisons ont une favorable temperature, la les hommes sont charnus, faibles, d'une constitution humide, d'un caractere indolent, et generalement sans courage dans I'dme. L'insou,- dance et I'engourdissement domiiient en eux; et dans I'exercice des arts ' Coray:— des pays raboteux, sees et nuds (p. 117). ° C. . . . tant ponr la figure que pour la constitution morale et physique (p. 117). ' Coray :— Ces variations sont la cause principale des differentes modifications de la nature de I'homme. Vient ensnite la qualite du sol d'ou il tire sa nonrriture, et colles des eaux dont il fait usage. En effet, vous observerez quo la constitution physique et morale de I'homme suit pour I'ordinaire la nature du sol qu'il habito (p. 117). * Coray :—ovi les eaux ont si pea de {.ro- foiideur qu'elles (p. 117). 123. Those who live on thin, ill- watered and bare soils, and not well attempered in the changes of the seasons, in such a country they are likely to be in their persons rather hard and well braced, rather of a blond than a dark complexion,^ and in disposition and passions haughty and self-willed. For, where the changes of the seasons are most frequent, and where they differ most from one another, there you will find their forms, dispo- sitions, and natui'e the most varied. 124. These are the strongest of the natural causes of difference, and next tlie country in which one lives, and the waters; for, in gene- ral, you will find th.e forms and dispositions of mankind to cor- respond with the nature of the country; 125. for where the land is fertile, soft, and well watered, and supplied with waters from very elevated situations, so as to be hot in summer and cold in winter, and where the seasons are fine, there the men are fleshy, have ill-formed joints, and are of a humid tem- perament; they are not disposed to endure labour, and, for the most part, are base in spirit; indolence and sluggishness are visible in them, and to the arts they are dull, and not clever nor acute. ' Cfr. the Arabs.