TY  - BOOK
AU  - Craik,Elizabeth
TI  - Two Hippocratic Treatises on Sight and on Anatomy: Edited and Translated with Introduction and Commentary
T2  - Studies in Ancient Medicine Series
SN  - 9789047411024
AV  - R126.H7A1 2006 
U1  - 610.938 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Hippocrates
KW  - Medicine, Greek and Roman
KW  - Vision disorders-Early works to 1800
KW  - Human anatomy-Early works to 1800
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Part 1 ON SIGHT -- INTRODUCTION -- I. Title -- II. Transmission and Reception -- III. Content and Expression -- IV. Place in the Hippocratic Corpus -- Provenance and Date -- V. Place in the History of Ophthalmology -- REFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONSPECTUS SIGLORUM -- TEXT -- COMMENTARY -- GLOSSARY OF OPHTHALMOLOGICAL TERMS -- DIAGRAMS -- Diagram 1. The Eye: anterior view -- Diagram 2. The Head: lateral view -- Diagram 3. Section of the eyeball -- Part II ON ANATOMY -- THE HIPPOCRATIC TREATISE ON ANATOMY -- Introduction -- References and Abbreviations -- TEXT -- COMMENTARY -- DISCUSSION -- I. Background -- II. Anat. and the HC: content -- III. Anat. and the HC: expression -- IV. The Demokritean dimension -- V. Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TEXTS -- GENERAL INDEX
N2  - This is a new edition, with translation, introduction and commentary, of two short Hippocratic texts: On Sight and On Anatomy. Both content and language are closely analysed to interpret the works in the context of Greek medical writing
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