Papavramidou Niki, Fee Elizabeth, Christopoulou-Aletra Helen
History of Medicine Division, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 356, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece.
J Gastrointest Surg. 2007 Dec;11(12):1728-31. doi: 10.1007/s11605-007-0281-1. Epub 2007 Sep 25.
The Hippocratic physicians were among the first who described jaundice (icterus). The Hippocratic Corpus has numerous appearances of the condition, where its etiology, description, prognosis, and treatment are provided. The connection made between the liver and jaundice was remarkable, bearing in mind that the Hippocratic physicians had not performed dissections and that their medical views were based on observation. The Hippocratic doctors described five kinds of jaundice. The etiology was, as in most cases of diseases mentioned in the Hippocratic Corpus, "humoral" imbalance. The diagnosis and prognosis were based on the color of the skin, the urine, the feces, and several other factors, such as the season of the year during which the disease first appeared or the coexisting diseases. The treatment, finally, consisted of herbal medications, baths, diet, and blood-letting, depending on the type of jaundice in question. Finally, an attempt is made to correlate modern diseases with the Hippocratic types of jaundice.
希波克拉底派医生是最早描述黄疸（黄疸病）的人之一。《希波克拉底文集》中有多处提及这种病症，其中提供了其病因、描述、预后和治疗方法。考虑到希波克拉底派医生并未进行解剖，且他们的医学观点基于观察，他们将肝脏与黄疸联系起来的做法颇为引人注目。希波克拉底派医生描述了五种黄疸。与《希波克拉底文集》中提及的大多数疾病情况一样，病因是“体液”失衡。诊断和预后基于皮肤、尿液、粪便的颜色以及其他几个因素，比如疾病首次出现时的年份季节或并存的疾病。最后，治疗方法包括草药治疗、沐浴、饮食和放血，具体取决于所讨论的黄疸类型。最后，人们尝试将现代疾病与希波克拉底派的黄疸类型进行关联。
