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Hippocrates upon Air, water, and situation; upon Epidemical diseases; and upon Prognosticks, in acute cases especially / To which is added The life of Hippopocrates from Solanus. And Thucydides's Account of the plague of Athens. The whole translated, methodis'd, and illustrated with useful and explanatory notes. By Francis Clifton.

  • Hippocrates.
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1752
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Credit: Hippocrates upon Air, water, and situation; upon Epidemical diseases; and upon Prognosticks, in acute cases especially / To which is added The life of Hippopocrates from Solanus. And Thucydides's Account of the plague of Athens. The whole translated, methodis'd, and illustrated with useful and explanatory notes. By Francis Clifton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ! their own Mates, or at their own difpofaJ, but flaves to others, they will never trouble themfelves about mili¬ tary matters, but rather difcourage fighting ; the dangers being by no means equal. For they are oblig’d to fight (perhaps), to labour, and to die for their Governors, while their Wives and Children and other Friends are left behind: and, whatever advantages attend fuch en¬ gagements, their Governors turn ’em all to their own profit; but the dangers and the deaths that attend ’em are to be fhar’d by the others. Add to this, that the Country mult needs be defolate by wars and lazinefs 1 ; fo that, if a Man is naturally brave and well-difpos’d s, his mind muft clafh with the Laws. A flrong proof of this is, that, where any Greeks or Foreigners in Afia are exempt from flavery, and under their own government, receiving the fruits of their own labour, there they are the moft warlike of any. For the dangers they under¬ go are for themfelves, and the reward of their bravery they receive themfelves, as well as fuffer for their cowar- dife. You will alfo find among the Afiaticks a great difference, feme being better, others worfe; occafion’d, as has been faid before, by the changes of the Seafons. With refpedt to thefe people thus tire cafe feems to be. In Europe there is a Scythian people, call’d Sauroma- Qf ty tc?-> upon the borders of the Pains Maotis, different Sauroma- from other Nations. The Women here ride on horfe- tae* back, draw the bow, throw the javelin as they ride, and fight in their battles, fo long as they remain Vir¬ gins. Nor do they give up their Virginity, before they have killed three Men in the field; or cohabit with a 2 Avctyan spnfjLov&cu tyu> yyv Cmo ts <uote{ucov kcli «ep- for which Zuing. reads, nutpov&ou tmv yvcofjw Cm® rs kcu ctpytHf. as if their mind was mollify’d or their pajjions effeminated, for want of skill or exercife in war, sr from overmuch lazinefs. 3 Es tis qvpei 'uapyuv avf pncf kcu 5 Man*