# In Hippocratis De fracturis 2.21

Galen, In Hippocratis De fracturis, Book 2. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/galen/in-hippocratis-de-fracturis/2.21

Καίτοι ἢν σφακελίσῃ, τὸν αἰῶνα πάντα ἱκανὸν ἀντισχεῖν τὸ νόσημα. Φανερώτερον νῦν εἰρηκέναι τὸν ὅλον Βίον τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, καὶ ἔστιν ὁ λόγος αὐτοῦ τοιοῦτος· ἄν ποτε ἡ πτέρνα σφακελίσῃ, ἀνίατον γίγνεται τὸ πάθημα καὶ παραμένει τῷ βίῳ παντὶ ἡ ἐξ αὐτοῦ κάκωσις.

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Galen, In Hippocratis De fracturis, ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg0057.tlg100.local001/.