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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    ment, I'action du soleil ne s'exerQunt jjlus. 46. Aussij de toutes les eaux, celle qui se corrompt le plus vite, c'est I'eau de pluie; elle contracte une mauvaise odeur; car de toutes elle est la plus melangee, et ce melange en accelere la corruption. 47. Mais,^ d'un autre cote, I'eau enlevee et portee dans les regions superieures, est promenee dans Vatmosphere avec laquelle elle se mele, elle se separe de ses parties opaques et troubles, qui deviennent hruvie et brouillard; elle conserve les parties les plus tenues et les phis legeres,quis'adoucissent sous Vaction echauffante du, soleil et par sa coc- tion; or, par la coction toute chose s'adoucit toujours. 48. Tant que cette partie legere reste dispersee et sans condensation, elle est promenee au haut de Vatmo- sphere ; mais, quand la rencontre soudaine des vents opposes la reunit et la condense, alors elle se precipite du point oil la condensation se trouve avoir ete la plus considerable. Sans doute, en effet, la pluie se forme de preference quand les nuages que le ' Coray translates : Les bonnes qualites de I'eau de pluie viennent encore de ce que i les flnides attires par le soleil, etant une fois \ Aleves dans I'atmospli&re, se m61ent et se portent de teas odtes avec I'air (p. 41). because the sun no longer shines upon it.^ 46. Wherefore, of all kinds of water, these spoil the soonest; and rain water has a bad smell, because its particles are collected and mixed together from most objects, so as to spoil the soonest. 47. And, in addition to this, when attracted and raised up, being carried about and mixed with the air, whatever part of it is turbid and darkish is separated and re- moved from the other, and becomes cloud and mist, but the most attenuated and lightest part is left, and becomes sweet, being heated and concocted by the sun, for all other things when concocted be- come sweet. 48. While dissipated then and not in a state of consistence it is carried aloft. But, when collected and condensed by contrary winds, it falls down wherever it happens to be most condensed. For this is likely to happen when the clouds being carried along and moving ' Adams refers to Aristotle discussing the subject in his Problems, ii. 9, 36, 37 ; ii. 15 ; i. 53; v. 34; and arriving at nearly the same conclusions as Hippocrates. Ho also refers to Thoophrastas de Sudoribus (i. p. 199, note).