Medicine -- Aphorisms

Contents The final 45 folios of MS 163, ff. 73-118, contains a copy of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. This text was also part of the medieval medical reference volume, the 'Articella'. It contains a set of propositions on diagnosis and symptoms of diseases, and also guidance on healing.The text begins on f. 73r with the famous first sentence of this text: Vita brevis ars vero longa, "Life is short, but art is...

Contents F. 72v contains an interesting preface to the text that follows, on ff. 73-118v, the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. The short preface on f. 72v blames the inaccuracy and obscurity of previous translations (into Latin, from the original Greek) of the Aphorisms. The text is only 24 lines, and begins with Afforismum ypocratis hujus edictionis causa exstitit... It ends with septima in acutis...