(h/b) hippocrates (volume vii) // epidemics 2, 4-7

The five books of Epidemics presented here have generally been less well known and studied than books 1 and 3. In Roman imperial times they were judged by Galen and his predecessors to be "less genuine" than books 1 and 3. Since then they have been less frequently copied, edited, translated and interpreted. W. H. S. Jones was following that tradition in volume I of the Loeb Hippocrates when he printed 1 and 3 only, and praised them as "the most remarkable product of Greek science." I hope to make some amends for that here, and, by making all seven books of Epidemics available, to help to restore these unique and interesting works to their proper place. (...) (from the publisher)