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PART 9

IX. Loss of appetite, to a degree that I never met before, attended all the cases described above, but most especially the last, and of them, and of the others also, especially such as were fatally stricken.1

[p. 251] Thirst afflicted some, but not others ; of the fever patients, as well as of the other cases, none were unseasonably affected, but as far as drink was concerned you could diet them as you pleased.

1 The emendation of Blass permits the translator of this passage to harmonize both sense and grammar. Before it was impossible to do so.

Hippocrates Collected Works I. Hippocrates. W. H. S. Jones. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1868.

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