Hippocrates

Meaning

Hippocrates is invoked for the proposition that all diseases come from air or foods. Nuysement interprets it through his own twofold account: earthly dregs entering with nourishment and combustible sulphurous matter associated with corrupted air. The authority supports this division inside the treatise; no exact Hippocratic work is named or authenticated here.

The classification aims to protect an intermediate substance from both corruptors through the corresponding purifying means. It should not become an endorsed universal account of disease. Aliments and viandes cover foods generally, not meat alone, and the surrounding appeal to foul smells is historical evidence-rhetoric, not advice to burn, smell or ingest test materials.