[197] The strongest argument in favor of its being a production of the Cnidian school is the mode of treating pneumonia here laid down, which certainly in so far agrees with what Galen says of Cnidian practice in such cases, namely, that those authorities omitted bleeding and purging. See Opera, tom. v., p. 87.
[198] See under Ἱππωκράτης. The meaning of the passage, however, is somewhat doubtful.
[199] Comment, in Lib. Vict. Acut., i., p. 43; ed. Basil.
[200] Zuinger, however, stands up for its genuineness. Hippocratis Vigenti duo Comment., etc., p. 386. He gives a most elaborate analysis of it.
[201] These dreamy views of human life look very much like an anticipation of the Fourierism of the present day. So true is the hackneyed saying, “there is nothing new under the sun!”
[202] Hist. de la Méd., i., iii., 13.
[203] Hippocrates, in his treatise ‘On Diet in Acute Diseases,’ says decidedly that the ancients—that is to say, his predecessors—had written nothing of any value on the subject of Dietetics (§ 1). From this we may infer that the present work was not known in his days; for it can scarcely be supposed that he would have spoken so disparagingly of it.
[204] Galen quotes it as a portion of the work on Diet. See Opera, tom. v., p. 377; ed. Basil.
[205] This idea is well explained and enlarged upon by Alexander Aphrodisiensis.—Probl. i., 118. This writer must not be confounded with the commentator on Aristotle.
[206] Zuinger points out a striking mark of the connection between it and the work ‘On Diet:’ op. sup. laud. p. 549.