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Entry | Hippocrates upon air, water, and situation; upon epidemical diseases; and upon …

Hippocrates upon air, water, and situation; upon epidemical diseases; and upon prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To which is added the life of Hippocrates from Soranus, and Thucydides's account of the plague of Athens. The whole translated, methodis'd and illustrated with useful and explanatory notes by Francis Clifton

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Content: Athens’ Plague

Francis Clifton (?-1736), physician. Clifton studied medicine at Leiden University, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1727, received an honorary MD from Cambridge in 1728, and became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1729. He also served as physician to the Prince of Wales before resigning in 1734 and relocating to Jamaica. He died in Jamaica in 1736, leaving an unfinished account of the diseases of the island. ODNB

Translation of Thuc. 2.47-54 (Athens' Plague), with commentary, along with the translations of selected passages from Hippocrates.

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