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2. Disease <strong>of</strong> the Spleen<br />

<strong>The</strong> part <strong>of</strong> Internal Affections that discusses a disease <strong>of</strong> the spleen ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>s<br />

that, as the illness progresses, the patient becomes pale yellow, experiences severe pa<strong>in</strong>,<br />

<strong>and</strong> does not accept food. When this po<strong>in</strong>t has been reached, the physician is advised to<br />

prescribe a diet <strong>of</strong> Cnidian berries, lentil-soup, boiled beets, <strong>and</strong> dark dry w<strong>in</strong>e; he should<br />

also have the patient rest, <strong>and</strong> allow only shorts walks <strong>in</strong> the shade. From then on, the<br />

patient’s diet should <strong>in</strong>clude whole-wheat bread, the ground meat <strong>of</strong> an adult dog (kuno_j<br />

me/zonoj), sheep or goat, <strong>and</strong> Cadiz salt-fish or saperdes (30.18-30.22) [114]. Even<br />

though it does not provide any evidence regard<strong>in</strong>g the boil<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> dog flesh, the passage is<br />

<strong>in</strong>formative <strong>in</strong> show<strong>in</strong>g that gr<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g furnished an additional way <strong>in</strong> which this flesh was<br />

adm<strong>in</strong>istered as curative food.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Flesh <strong>of</strong> Puppies as Dietary Treatment for Certa<strong>in</strong> Diseases<br />

1. Pleurisy<br />

A considerable section (chapters 44-62) <strong>of</strong> the treatise Diseases II, which dates to<br />

the middle <strong>of</strong> the fifth century B.C., 330 focuses on diseases <strong>of</strong> the chest <strong>and</strong> back.<br />

Regard<strong>in</strong>g the pa<strong>in</strong> occurr<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the chest <strong>and</strong> sp<strong>in</strong>e due to pleurisy, advice is provided<br />

regard<strong>in</strong>g the diet that could alleviate this pa<strong>in</strong>. Apart from dr<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g millet-juice mixed<br />

with honey, diluted white w<strong>in</strong>e, <strong>and</strong> eat<strong>in</strong>g beets, the patient should also eat a little <strong>of</strong> the<br />

meat <strong>of</strong> boiled puppy (sku&laka) or fowl, <strong>and</strong> dr<strong>in</strong>k the sauce <strong>in</strong> which it is cooked<br />

(Diseases II, 44.16-44.19) [115]. As can be seen, the boiled meat <strong>of</strong> a puppy features<br />

aga<strong>in</strong> as medic<strong>in</strong>al, <strong>in</strong> this case, analgesic food.<br />

330 Jouanna, Hippocrates 383, states that this should be a possible date for the treatise, but clarifies that<br />

<strong>in</strong>stances <strong>of</strong> rewrit<strong>in</strong>gs detected <strong>in</strong> some cases po<strong>in</strong>t to the fact that not all its sections are contemporaneous.<br />

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