[108] Epidemiorum, v., vii.; de Corde; de Alimento; de Carnibus; de Septimanis; de Natura Ossium; de Glandulis; de Medico; de Decenti habitu; Præceptiones; de Anatomia; de Dentitione; de Exsectione Fœtus; de Visu; de Crisibus; de Diebus Criticis; de Medicamentis Purgativis.
[109] Hippocrat. Coi Comment. etc., Theod. Zuingeri studio. Basil, 1579.
[110] See his additions to Ackerman’s Dissertation, in his edition of the Works of Hippocrates.
[111] § 122, tom. i., p. 172 (ed. Bekker), where see the note of Heindorf.
[112] Galeni Opera, tom. v., pp. 2, 16; ed. Basil.
[113] Œuvres Complètes, etc., tom. i., p. 320.
[114] The argument turns principally on the meaning of the expression, τι πότε λέγει Ἱπποκράτης τε καὶ ὁ ἀληθὴ λόγος, which M. Littré contends signifies, “ce qu’Hippocrate et la raison pourraient dire.” Now I must say that, to me, the words of Plato here quoted do not warrant the interpretation which M. Littré puts upon them; and, not satisfied with my own judgment on this point, which happens in the present instance to be an important one, I applied to one of the best authorities in Britain on the minutiæ of the Greek language for his opinion, and was happy to find that it entirely corresponded with my own. Having alluded in the text to the prolixity of the discussion which M. Littré enters into on this occasion, I trust that eminent scholar will not be offended (provided these pages ever meet his eyes) if I introduce here an anecdote of the celebrated Kuster. Having been shown a work in which the quantity of argumentation and reflection greatly over-balanced the amount of facts and references, he laid it aside with the remark, “I find nothing here but reasoning: non sic itur ad astra.”
[115] Galeni Opera, tom. v., p. 119; ed. Basil.
[116] Comment. vii.; et sect. vii., 53 et seq.
[117] See under Hippocrates in Smith’s Greek and Roman Biographical and Mythological Dictionary.