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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    froids qui sQufflent entre h coucher d'ete et le lever d'ete, presentent les particularites suivantes : Les eaux y sont geiieralement dures et froides ; ^ 16. les hommes y doivent etre ro- hustes et sees ; chez la pi apart, les cavites inferieures sont fermes et difficiles a emouvoir; les cavites sujperieures sont plus faciles;. les temperaments y sont plus hilieux que phlegmaliques; le cerveau y est sain et sec; les ruptures inte- rieures y sont freqiientes. 17. Les maladies communes chez eux sont les pleuresies et toutes les affections appellees aigiies. En effet, quand le ventre est sec, inevitahle- ment toute cause occasionelle pro- duiro; chez plusieurs, des suppura- tions de poumon ; ce qui vient de la riqidite du corps et de la durete du ventre j car la secheresse de la con- stitution et le froid des eaux dis- posent les vaisseaux a se rompre. Des hommes ainsi constitues doivent heaucoup manger et peu hoire; on ne pent guere, en effet, etre a lafois grand mangeur et grand buveur. 18. II leur survient, par intervalle, « des ophthalmies; elles sont seches ' C. Lo3 eaux, ordinairement dures et froides, n'y aonfc gu&re susceptibles d'6tre oorrigees (p. 15). tings and the summer risings of the sun, and to which these winds are peculiar, and which are shel- tered from the south and hot breezes. In the first place the waters are, for the most part, hard and cold. 16. The men must necessa- rily be well braced and slender, and they must have the discharges downwards of the alimentary canal hard, and of difficult evacuation, while those upwards are more fluid, and rather bilious than pituitous. Their heads are sound and hard, and they are liable to burstings (of vessels?) for the most part. 17. The diseases which prevail epidemically with them, are pleui-i- sies, and those which are called acute diseases. This must be the case when the bowels are bound; and from any causes, many become affected with suppurations in the lungs, the cause of which is the tension of the body, and hardness of the bowels; for their dryness and the coldness of the water dis- pose them to ruptures (of vessels?). Such constitutions must be given to excess of eating, but not of drinking; for it is not possible to be gourmands and drunkards at the same time. 18. Ophthalmies, too, at length supervene; these being of a hard