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Hippocrates, De affectionibus 6.17-6.19 IV B.C.
Text: É. Littré, ed., Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate VI (Paris, 1849; repr. Amsterdam,
1962).
Translation: P. Potter, ed., tr., Hippocrates V (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1988).
Krew~n koufo&tata e0j to_ sw~ma ku&neia kai\ o)rni/qeia kai\ lagw|~a ta_ di/efqa:
bare/a de\ ta_ bo&eia kai\ ta_ xoi/reia.
The lightest meats for the body are well-boiled dog, fowl and hare;
heavy are beef and pork.
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Hippocrates, De affectionibus 41.7-41.11 IV B.C.
Text: É. Littré, ed., Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate VI (Paris, 1849; repr. Amsterdam,
1962).
Translation: P. Potter, ed., tr., Hippocrates V (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1988).
toi=si de\ a)pu&roisin a1rtou kaqarou~ to_ e1swqen e0nqru&yaj e0n zwmw|~, h2 ma~zan
kai\ te/maxoj e9fqo_n, h2 kre/aj o)i"o_j w(j newta&thj, h2 o1rniqoj, h2 sku&lakoj e9fqo_n, h2
teu~tlon h2 koloku&nthn h2 blh~ton, kai\ meta_ to_ siti/on pi/nein oi]non eu)w&dea, palaio_n,
leuko_n, u(dare/a.
If the patients do not have fever give the inner part of a loaf of white bread crumbled into
soup, or barley-cake and a slice of boiled fish, or meat of very young lamb, fowl, or
puppy, these boiled or beets or gourd or blites; after the meal let them drink dilute
fragrant old white wine.
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Hippocrates, De affectionibus 43.1-43.4 IV B.C.
Text: É. Littré, ed., Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate VI (Paris, 1849; repr. Amsterdam,
1962).
Translation: P. Potter, ed., tr., Hippocrates V (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1988).
3Otan koili/hn u(grai/nein a)po_ siti/wn a)sqene/ontoj e0qe/lh|j, dido&nai ma~zan kai\ o1ya,
qalassi/wn me\n tema&xea e9fqa_ e0n u(potri/mmati, kre/a de\ o)i"o_j w(j newta&thj, h2
e0ri/fou, h2 sku&lakoj, h2 o1rniqoj e9fqa_, kai\ teu~tla h2 blh~ta h2 la&paqa h2 koloku&nthn,
h2n h( w3rh h|}:
When you wish to moisten a patient’s cavity by means of foods, give barley-cake, and, as
main-dishes slices of seafoods in a mixed dish, meat of very young lamb, kid, puppy or
fowl, these boiled, and beets, blites docks or gourd if they are in season.
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