Two Hippocratic Treatises on Sight and on Anatomy ─ Edited and Translated With Introduction and Commentary

Craik (classics honorary, St. Andrews U.) offers new translations and commentary of On Sight and On Anatomy, two works related to the Hippocratic corpus; the first, however, is a brief surgical manual on eye afflictions may have originated in Africa, while the account of basic human anatomy may have come from a source in northern Greece. Craik closely analyzes both texts, commenting on the various interpretations of both theory and practice that readers of the time could have made. She places the works within their medical and historical contexts, and includes the illustrations for the non-expert and a list of authors and texts. The result is a tantalizing look into what we once believed and also into what more we still need to know. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Elizabeth M. Craik, formerly Professor of Classics at Kyoto University, Japan, is now honorary professor at the University of St. Andrews (D. Litt. St. Andrews, 2000). Her publications on Hippocratic medicine include an edition of Places in Man (1998).