First draft. This English translation was generated by
Claude Sonnet 4.6, critiqued by Claude Haiku 4.5, and adjudicated/corrected
once by Claude Sonnet 4.6. It is published for reading and review, not as a
final scholarly edition. Hippocratic medical recipes and treatments are
historical text, not medical advice.
ON DENTITION.
1. Children who are naturally well-nourished do not take in milk proportionate to their flesh-growth.
2. Those who are voracious and draw much milk are not fleshed out in proportion. Those nursing children who pass much urine are least prone to nausea.
4. Those whose belly is much moved and who digest well are healthier; those with scanty movement, voracious ones, not nourished in proportion, are prone to disease. Those who vomit back much milk-like matter have the bowel become bound.
6. Those whose bowels move more frequently during teething are less prone to convulsions than those in whom movement is infrequent. Those in whom an acute fever comes on during teething are seldom seized with convulsions.
8. Such teething children as remain well-nourished while being prone to drowsy lethargy are in danger of being seized by convulsion. Those who teethe in winter fare better, all else being equal.
10. Not all who have convulsions during teething die; many in fact survive. Those who teethe with cough take longer; and during the lancing, they become more wasted.
12. Those who during teething have chills, these — being carefully managed — bear teething more easily. Those who pass more urine than stool are better nourished in proportion.
14. Those in whom urination is not proportionate, and the bowel frequently strains out raw matter from infancy, are prone to disease. Those who sleep well and are well-nourished: much is taken up, and what lies alongside is not sufficiently administered.
16. Those who eat alongside nursing bear weaning more easily. Those who frequently void bloody and unconcocted matter through the bowel are among those most drowsy in fever.
18. Ulcers forming in the tonsil-region without fever are safer. In those nursing infants in whom cough takes hold, the uvula tends to be enlarged.
20. In those in whom spreading sores establish themselves quickly in the tonsil-region while fevers persist and there is coughing, there is danger of the ulcers forming again. Ulcers in the isthmus that recur are dangerous to those in a like condition.
22. In children with notable ulcers in the tonsil-region, when they are swallowing, there is safety — such children more readily so than those previously unable to swallow. In tonsil-region ulcers, for much bilious matter to be vomited up or to pass through the bowel is dangerous.
24. In ulcers of the tonsil-region, the presence of something cobweb-like is not good. In ulcers of the tonsil-region, for phlegm to flow through the mouth after the first period of the illness — phlegm not previously present — is useful, yet it must be attended to; and if it begins to yield together, one may be well pleased at it; but that which does not flow in this way must be guarded against.
26. In those with inflammation of the tonsils, when the bowel is moved more fully downward, it resolves dry coughs; in children, when something concocted is brought up, it more often resolves them. Ulcers in the tonsil-region that remain without increase over a long period are not dangerous before the fifth or sixth day.
28. Those nursing infants who take in much milk are, for the most part, drowsy. Those nursing infants who do not thrive well are wasted and difficult to restore.
30. Ulcers arising in the tonsil-region in summer are worse than those in the other seasons, for they spread more quickly. Ulcers spreading around the uvula in the tonsil-region, in those who survive, alter the voice.
32. Ulcers spreading around the throat are more severe and more acute, and for the most part bring on difficult breathing.