Hippocrates on airs, waters and places / the received Greek text of Littré, with Latin, French, and English translations by eminent scholars.

  • Hippocrates.
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1881
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    artiadations,^ attoulu qu'ils out toxijours les pteds j^eiulaiits le long da cheval, et qui va menre jimqu'd occasionner la claiuUcation^ et la distension de la lianclie chez ceux qui sont gravement atteints. lis se traitent de leur impuissa.vce ahisi qu'il suit: au debut du mal, ils ouvrent la veine placeo dfimere Vune et Vautre oreille. Quand lesangcoule,^ la faihlcsse excite le sommeil, et ils s'endormeiit; puis ils s'eveillent, les uns gioeris, les aiitres non. Mnis ce traitement nieme mesemble altercr la liqueur seminale; car il y a,, derriere les oreilles, des veines qui, covpees, privent ceux qui out suhi eette operation de la faculte d'en- gendrer; or ce sont ccs veines-la qu'ils me paraisseut coioper. 109. Gela fait, lorsqu'ils vont avpres d'une femme, et qu'ils ne pfuvent avoir commerce avec elle, d'uhord ils s'en inquietent peu, et se tiennent en repos. Mais si deux, trois teniatives ou un plus grand riombre ne leur reussissent pas mieux, ils s'imaginent avoir commis quelqite offence a I'egard du dieu d qui ils attrihuent leur affliction, et prennent les habits de femme; ils declarent leur impuissance ; des lors ils vivent comme les femmes, et se livrent aux memes occupation.s. 110. Gette maladie offecte, parmi les Scythes, non les hommes du dernier rang, mais les riches, ceux qui sont les plus puissants par leur ' C. des fluxions chroniques aus articu- lations (p. 101). ^ C. Qaand cette maladie s'aggrave, la hanche se retire, et ils deviennent boiteux (pp. 101, 103). ^ C. Aprfes que le sang a cesse deconler la foiblease les assoupit et les endort (p. 103). (lifidmataY owing to their legs always hanging down below their horses ; they afterwards become lame and stiff at the hip-joint^ such of them, at least, as are severely attacked with it. They treat them- selves in this way: when the dis- ease is commencing, they open the vein behind either ear, and when the blood flows, sleep, from feeble- ness, seizes them, and afterwards they awaken, some in good health and others not. To me it appears that the semen is altered by this treatment, for there are veins be- hind the ears which, if cut, induce impotence; - now, these veins would appear to me to be cut. 109. Such persons afterwards, when they go in to women and can- not have connexion with them, at first do not think much about it, but remain quiet; but when, after making the attempt two, three, or more times, they succeed no better, fancying they have committed some offence against the god whom they blame for the affection, they put on female attire, reproach them- selves for effeminacy, play the part of women, and perform the same work as women do. 110. This the rich among the Scythians endure, not the basest, ' This word has much puzzled the com- mentators, &o. Foes (CEc. Hipp.) as above. '■' This is a delusion supptiited only by phrenology.