Critical edition (with introduction, translation and commentary) of the Hippocratic treatise De Affectionibus. (360G-Wellcome-078721_Z_05_Z)

The treatise De Affectionibus ?????Peri pathôn), henceforth Aff., is a nosological work of about 60 pages Greek text (in the Littré-numeration), which already in antiquity was transmitted as a part of the 'Hippocratic Corpus'. Aff. is unique among the 'Hippocratic writings' in that it presents itself as a manual for lay people (not physicians). It provides a systematic discussion of diseases and their treatment. It then discusses a number of dietetic modes of treatment (foods, drinks, baths etc.) applied to a variety of diseases. It also refers several times to a discussion of drug treatment and drug preparation. The author of the work is unknown, and its date can only be established approximatively.No comprehensive critical edition of this important work exists; nor is there anything remotely aspiring to a modern scholarly commentary. The aim of this project is to produce such a critical edition of Aff., which will be based on an exhaustive study of the whole manuscript and printed tradition. Moreover, the Greek text will be accompanied by an English translation and a commentary in which the work will be placed within the intellectual context of the time. This edition will be published in the prestigious series Corpus Medicorum Graecorum of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.