Source edition
Hippocrates. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Vol. 9. Littré, Émile, editor. Paris: Baillière, 1861
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Summary
This medical work expounds the importance of prognosis and "critical days" in ancient Greek medicine. The author begins by emphasizing the necessity for physicians to accurately grasp the weather conditions and the individual status of the disease. In the first half, the text discusses the signs for determining whether a patient will survive, alongside the clinical presentations of acute brain diseases caused by bile and tetanus. The latter half details the specific symptoms and progression of various ailments, including opisthotonus, sciatica, jaundice, and pneumonia. Finally, the work presents the cyclical laws of critical days, which serve as crucial turning points in acute fevers, providing essential guidelines for clinical observation.