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On Airs, Waters, and Places
ISBN-13:
9781911495758
Veröffentl:
2016
Seiten:
34
Autor:
Hippocrates
Serie:
Medical Library
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
NO DRM
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
In his treatise On Airs, Waters, and Places, Hippocrates discusses the effects of different environments on human health. He observes that certain climatic conditions are conducive to good health, while others lead to illness. For example, he notes that people who live in hot, dry climates tend to be healthy and have few diseases, while those who live in cold, wet climates are more susceptible to illness.
Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed thus: in the first place to consider the seasons of the year, and what effects each of them produces for they are not at all alike, but differ much from themselves in regard to their changes. Then the winds, the hot and the cold, especially such as are common to all countries, and then such as are peculiar to each locality. We must also consider the qualities of the waters, for as they differ from one another in taste and weight, so also do they differ much in their qualities.