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DIOCLES OF CARYSTUS: A Collection ef the Fragments with Translation and Commentary 4 CONTENTS 6 INTRODUCTION TO THE COMMENTARY 8 Sources 9 The availability of Diocles' works 10 Galen 15 The Anonymous of Paris 16 Caelius Aurelianus 19 Soranus 20 Other sources (Aetius, Pliny, Athenaeus, Oribasius) 21 The reconstruction of Diocles' ideas and their intellectual context 23 Diocles as a writer and communicator 24 Method and content: the verbatim fragments 26 The indirect evidence 28 The problem of Diocles' date and intellectual context 32 Advice to the user of the commentary 39 Acknowledgements 42 COMMENTARY 44 Life, chronology, reputation (frs. 1–12) 46 General approach to medicine, methodology (frs. 13–16) 63 Anatomy (frs. 17–24) 74 Physiology (frs. 25–39) 91 Theory of reproduction, embryology (frs. 40–48) 124 Diseases 154 General pathology, diagnosis and prognosis (frs. 49–71) 154 Specific pathology, symptomatology and treatment of diseases (frs. 72–144) 189 Specific therapeutic measures (frs. 145–167) 324 Gynaecology (frs. 168–175) 352 Dietetics and regimen in health (frs. 176–186) 366 Foods, drinks and herbs (frs. 187–238) 414 Various topics (frs. 239–241) 461 Appendix: Some texts a

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