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Hippocrates, OntheArtofMedicine Studies in Ancient Medicine Editedby JohnScarborough PhilipJ.vanderEijk AnnEllisHanson JosephZiegler VOLUME39 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.nl/sam Hippocrates, On the Art of Medicine By JoelE.Mann LEIDEN•BOSTON 2012 Coverillustration:HippocratesofKos(ca.460–370bc)isconsideredthemostfamousphysicianof antiquity.OriginalwoodcutpublishedbyOttoSpamer,LeipzigandBerlin,1882. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Mann,JoelEryn,1975- Hippocrates,Ontheartofmedicine/byJoelE.Mann. pagescm.–(Studiesinancientmedicine,ISSN0925-1421;volume39) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-90-04-22413-1(hardback:alk.paper)1.Hippocrates.Peritechnes. 2.Medicine–Philosophy.I.Hippocrates.Peritechnes.English&Greek.II.Title.III.Title:Ontheart ofmedicine. R126.H7P57362012 610.1–dc23 2011048130 Thispublicationhasbeentypesetinthemultilingual“Brill”typeface.Withover5,100 characterscoveringLatin,IPA,Greek,andCyrillic,thistypefaceisespeciallysuitablefor useinthehumanities.Formoreinformation,pleaseseewww.brill.nl/brill-typeface. ISSN0925-1421 ISBN9789004224131(hardback) ISBN9789004224292(e-book) Copyright2012byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,GlobalOriental,HoteiPublishing, IDCPublishers,MartinusNijhoffPublishersandVSP. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise,withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNV providedthattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter, 222RosewoodDrive,Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA. Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. ForJosephine CONTENTS Preface.................................................................. ix ANoteontheTextandCitations....................................... xi 1.Introduction .......................................................... 1 2.Περὶτέχνης ........................................................... 51 3.OntheArtofMedicine............................................... 57 4.Commentary ......................................................... 65 Appendix.DeArteandtheHellenisticDebate.......................... 235 Bibliography............................................................ 255 GeneralIndex........................................................... 263 IndexLocorum ......................................................... 272 PREFACE Few have much experience with the so-called Hippocratic Corpus, that farrago of over seventy ancient Greek medical treatises that come down to us under the name of Hippocrates. Credit for my first exposure is due toagraduateseminaronmedicineandrhetoricledbyLesleyDean-Jones. My interest at the time lay chiefly in sophistic rhetoric and Pre-Socratic philosophy,andIwassurprisedathowmuchofbothweretobefoundin theCorpus,especiallyinthetreatiseknownasπερὶτέχνης,deArte,or,asI callitinthetitletothisbook,Ontheartofmedicine.Iwasfurthersurprised at how little scholarly attention had been devoted to de Arte. The major studies(Gomperz1910,Vegetti1964,Jori1996)wereextremelyvaluable,but Ihadthefeelingthatmuchmorewaslefttosay.Missingwasscholarship that preserved the insights of earlier studies while applying the methods ofanalyticphilosophythathaveprovensofruitfultothestudyofancient thoughtinthepastseveraldecades. Such is the aim of the present commentary. It does not aim to give the “last word” on de Arte. It does not aim to replace Gomperz’ learned literaryanalysisorVegetti’scomprehensivecomparisonofdeArtetoother Hippocratic works. Much less does it aim to invalidate the observations afforded by Jori’s “Continental” treatment of the text. Instead, I operate undertheconvictionthatdeArte,asaworkofsophisticrhetoricandPre- Socraticphilosophy,isdrivenbyargument,andthetoolsofAnglo-American analyticphilosophyareparticularlywellsuitedtoteasingoutthetanglesof theoftenverydenseandtechnicalargumentsweencounterindeArte. AndwhileIstillconsiderthisHippocratictreatiseascintillatingspeci- menofsophisticrhetoricandPre-Socraticphilosophy,Imustconfess,too, thatIhavecometobetterunderstanddeArteasamedicalwork.Somehave thoughtthatitscontributiontoancientmedicalknowledgeisunimpressive, andinanarrowsensethatmaybetrue.Butaclosereadingofthewhole treatise—andespeciallyofitssecondhalf—revealsanauthorfamiliarwith thepeculiarchallenges,boththeoreticalandpractical,thatdoctorsfaced intheancientworld.Thecogenceofitsbasicargument,thatmedicine‘is’ andispowerful,cannotbeappreciatedwithouttakingseriouslyitsmedical content. Thiscommentaryitselfwouldnothave‘been’withoutthehelpofagreat manypeople,startingfirstwithLesleyDean-JonesandJimHankinson,who
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