phrase from Hippocrates
Posted: April 17th, 2013, 11:46 am
I'm reading a book called "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Muherjee. On p. 52 it says:
"To clarify this already foggy theory, Galen had borrowed an equally foggy Hippocratic expression, κατ΄ 'ι'ξιυ -- Greek for "straight into" -- to describe isolating the vessels that led "straight into" tumors."
On the Google Books edition of the book, this same sentence reads:
""To clarify this already foggy theory, Galen had borrowed an equally foggy Hippocratic expression, και ιειυ -- Greek for "straight into" -- to describe isolating the vessels that led "straight into" tumors."
Any idea what the actual Greek expression from Hippocrates might be?
Obviously fonts are messed up somewhere...
Also any tips for how to look this sort of thing up for myself would be most appreciated -- I tried googling around with
Hippocrates Galen "straight into"
but no luck...
Thanks in advance, all. I have cancer myself, and "chemo brain" leaves me few of my customary pastimes.
χαρις και ειρηνη υμιν
susan jeffers
"To clarify this already foggy theory, Galen had borrowed an equally foggy Hippocratic expression, κατ΄ 'ι'ξιυ -- Greek for "straight into" -- to describe isolating the vessels that led "straight into" tumors."
On the Google Books edition of the book, this same sentence reads:
""To clarify this already foggy theory, Galen had borrowed an equally foggy Hippocratic expression, και ιειυ -- Greek for "straight into" -- to describe isolating the vessels that led "straight into" tumors."
Any idea what the actual Greek expression from Hippocrates might be?
Obviously fonts are messed up somewhere...
Also any tips for how to look this sort of thing up for myself would be most appreciated -- I tried googling around with
Hippocrates Galen "straight into"
but no luck...
Thanks in advance, all. I have cancer myself, and "chemo brain" leaves me few of my customary pastimes.
χαρις και ειρηνη υμιν
susan jeffers