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μέγα δὲ τεκμήριον ἐς τὴν ὑγρότητα παρέξομαι. Σκυθέων γὰρ τοὺς πολλούς, ἅπαντας ὅσοι Νομάδες, εὑρήσεις κεκαυμένους τούς τε ὤμους καὶ τοὺς βραχίονας καὶ τοὺς καρποὺς τῶν χειρῶν καὶ τὰ στήθεα καὶ τὰ ἰσχία καὶ τὴν ὀσφῦν δι᾽ ἄλλ᾽ οὐδὲν ἢ διὰ τὴν ὑγρότητα τῆς φύσιος καὶ τὴν μαλακίην. οὐ γὰρ δύνανται οὔτε τοῖς τόξοις συντείνειν οὔτε τῷ ἀκοντίῳ ἐμπίπτειν τῷ ὤμῳ ὑπὸ ὑγρότητος καὶ ἀτονίης. ὁκόταν δὲ [10] καυθέωσιν, ἀναξηραίνεται ἐκ τῶν ἄρθρων τὸ πολὺ [p. 124] τοῦ ὑγροῦ, καὶ ἐντονώτερα μάλλον γίνεται καὶ τροφιμώτερα καὶ ἠρθρωμένα τὰ σώματα μᾶλλον. ῥοϊκὰ δὲ γίνεται καὶ πλατέα, πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι οὐ σπαργανοῦνται ὥσπερ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ οὐδὲ νομίζουσι διὰ τὴν ἱππασιην, ὅκως ἂν εὔεδροι ἔωσιν: ἔπειτα δὲ διὰ τὴν ἕδρην: τά τε γὰρ ἄρσενα, ἕως ἂν οὐχ οἷά τε ἐφ᾽ ἵππου ὀχεῖσθαι, τὸ πολὺ τοῦ χρόνου κάθηνται ἐν τῇ ἁμάξῃ καὶ βραχὺ τῇ βαδίσει χρέονται διὰ τὰς μεταναστάσιας καὶ περιελάσιας: [20] τὰ δὲ θήλεα θαυμαστὸν οἷον ῥοϊκά ἑστι τε καὶ βραδέα τὰ εἴδεα. πυρρὸν δὲ τὸ γένος ἐστὶ τὸ Σκυθικὸν διὰ τὸ ψῦχος, οὐκ ἐπιγινομένου ὀξέος τοῦ ἡλίου. ὑπὸ δὲ τοῦ ψύχεος ἡ λευκότης ἐπι [24] καίεται καὶ γίνεται πυρρή.
Hippocrates Collected Works I. Hippocrates. W. H. S. Jones. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1868.
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