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76 Hippocratic Corpus and Diocles of Carystusin Diocles’ argument can be compared with the polemical remarks we findin such Hippocratic treatises as On Regimen and On Ancient Medicine(section 3). Finally, some remarks will be made about what I believe thefragment tells us (and what it does not tell us) about Diocles’ own practicein dietetics and medical science as a whole (section 4).2 interpretation of fragment 176The fragment is preserved by Galen in the introductory chapter of hisvoluminous dietetic work On the Powers of Foodstuffs (De alimentorumfacultatibus, De alim. facult.). Having stated the importance of this subject,Galen says that it has generated great disagreement among medical writers,and that it is therefore necessary to judge which of these writers are rightand which are wrong. The Greek text runs as follows: 11(1) . (2) . (3) (4) (5) ‘ (6) 11 The text is reproduced from the edition by G. Helmreich (CMG v4, 2), with one exception: atthe end of section 1, I emend instead of the MSS readings and . See onthis van der Eijk (1993c). Surprisingly, Jaeger seems not to have used Helmreich’s edition, and hisdiscussion of some textual problems (1938a, 25–6 and 37) should therefore be read with caution.[The translation printed here is the one printed in van der Eijk (2001a) 283–5.]