Hippocrates, Volume III: Wounds in the Head. In the Surgery. Fractures. Joints. Instruments of Reduction

The definitive English edition of the “Father of Medicine.”

This is the third volume in the Loeb Classical Library’s complete edition of Hippocrates’ invaluable texts, which provide essential information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. The five treatises in this volume, integral parts of the Hippocratic collection, are devoted to the art of surgery in treating injuries or disorders of the bones and their articulations. Wounds in...