Galen
On the Elements According to Hippocrates

translated by W. J. Lewis, with the assistance of J. A. Beach and S. Rubio-Fernaz

On the Elements

Galen

Further Reading

This translation is based on the edition of Helmreich (Erlangen 1878) in the databank of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae; numbers at the beginning of each paragraph refer to the corresponding page numbers of vol. 1 of the Kühn edition of Galen (vol. 1, pp. 413-509).

We are very grateful to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae for generously allowing us the use of their research facilities. We would also like to thank S. Wallbank for her helpful comments and suggestions.

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Posted 8/1/98; last revised 7/27/98. Translation © by the translators 1998; annotations and all related material © Ancient Medicine/Medicina Antiqua (Lee T. Pearcy) 1998. Please send suggestions and comments to Lee T. Pearcy, lpearcy@ea.pvt.k12.pa.us.