Hippocrate

1685 · réf. 66401 — 1685. Amstelaedami: Apud Henricum Westenium 1685 12 ° 16 181 2 pp. 33 pp. Index; 30 pp. title portrait copperplate engraving full contemporary morocco leather binding richly gilt on covers and gilt edges; fine copy. First edition published by Theodoor Jansson from Almeloveen onwards Greek-Latin with paralles and Verhoofd's index. Repeated Lugd. Bat. 1732; Edinb. 1736; Glasgow 1748; Lips. 1756; Argentor 1756; Lugd. bat. 1765. Aphorisms Corpus Hippocraticum The Aphorisms Greek fsµ Aphorismoí later also called Sententiae1 in Latin are a collection of texts within the Corpus Hippocraticum. They belong to the most widely distributed parts of the Hippocratic writings i.e. they have often been annotated and edited since antiquity. In seven chapters or books attributed to the Coic school of physicians2 422 short statements on a wide variety of medical fields and topics such as nosology therapy physiology and gynaecology3 have survived. The best-known aphorism is Vita brevis ars longa "Art is long life is short". In literary history the aphorisms give their name to the tradition of aphorisms as a literary genre. The dominant themes of the writing are therapeutic and prognostic relating to the assessment of the course of the disease. Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen 24 July 1657 - 28 July 17121 Theodoor Jansson was a Dutch physician and the learned editor of various classical and medical works. He was an untiring author and editor and acquired the highest reputation as a teacher and for his scholarship science and particularly for his great bibliographical knowledge. He had a great knowledge of books. Besides editions with notes of Strabo Juvenal Quintilian the Aphorisms of Hippocrates Celsus Apicius Aurelian on Diseases and Decker's Treatise on Supposititious Writings he has left a work in Dutch on the anatomy of the muscles several bibliographical treatises in Latin among which are a work-De Vitis Stephanorum a list of Plagiaries and a list of books promised that never appeared. hardcover