The texts
The passages published here so far — translated or prepared for translation — with the condition of each stated plainly. Nothing on this page has passed expert review; each piece says what stands behind it.
Aphorisms i.1, in two witnesses
In Hippocratis Aphorismos I, lemma 1 · Kühn XVIIb 345–346The most quoted sentence in Greek medicine, read through the direct Greek tradition and Ḥunayn's Arabic together, with Galen's own gloss adjudicating the ambiguous third clause.
draft — awaiting reviewerDrugs by Places, the preface
De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos I.1 · Kühn XII 378–381Galen on why a recipe book starts at the top of the head — the scalp as a plowed field of Demeter's grain — with the translator's working published beside the text. No prior published English rendering is known.
open — Greek prepared, untranslatedDrugs by Places, on alopecia
De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos I.2 · Kühn XII 381–426Forty-six segments of Greek on baldness, fox-mange, and their remedies, cut and anchored, waiting for a translator. Claim it in an issue.
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