title: Hippocrates, Volume I: Ancient Medicine (Loeb Classical Library, No. 147)
author:  Hippocrates 
description: William Henry Samuel Jones (18761963) was an ancient historian and President of St Catharines College, Cambridge.
zlib_text: HIPPOCRATES 
  ON ANCIENT MEDICINE
  
  STUDIES IN
  ANCIENT MEDICINE
  EDITED BY
  JOHN SCARBOROUGH
  PHILIP J. VAN DER EIJK
  ANN HANSON
  NANCY SIRAISI
  VOLUME 28
  
  HIPPOCRATES
  ON ANCIENT MEDICINE
  Translated with introduction and commentary
  BY
  MARK J. SCHIEFSKY
  BRILL
  LEIDEN • BOSTON
  2005
  
  Cover illustration: Cupping instrument, used for extracting blood or other fluids from 
  the body.
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  ISSN
  0925–1421
  ISBN
  90 04 13758 0
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