{"product_id":"hippocratis-de-affectionibus-hippocrates-pilar-prez-caizares-9783111000299","title":"Hippocratis de Affectionibus \/ Hippocrates, on Affections","description":"\u003cp\u003eA considerable number of ancient medical texts has not been yet edited drawing on the whole manuscript tradition. This is also the case of the treatise \u003cem\u003eOn Affections\u003c\/em\u003e, a medical book traditionally transmitted as a part of the Hippocratic Corpus. This volume offers the first critical edition of \u003cem\u003eOn Affections\u003c\/em\u003e that considers the whole manuscript and printed tradition. It also includes an exhaustive account of the history of the text, a translation into English and a commentary. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Affections\u003c\/em\u003e is unique among the Hippocratic writings in that it presents itself as a medical handbook for intelligent lay readers and not for physicians. The book includes a systematic discussion of diseases, and has clear affinities with other Hippocratic texts. Furthermore, it also contains a catalogue of foods and their properties, the combination of these two topics being unparalleled in the rest of the extant treatises. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences to other existing or yet-to-be-written medical books on different topics such as eye diseases, women diseases, tertian and quartan fevers and the recipe collection called \u003cem\u003eOn Drugs\u003c\/em\u003e hint at the wide circulation and availability of written medical knowledge at the beginning of the fourth century BCE. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pilar P駻ez Cazares\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 311100029X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783111000299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Walter de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Pilar P駻ez Cazares","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45064441069823,"sku":"9783111000299","price":177.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_acaec17f-563e-4166-a6c5-de8c139c446a.jpg?v=1712124352","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hippocratis-de-affectionibus-hippocrates-pilar-prez-caizares-9783111000299","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}