# In Hippocratis De victu acutorum 4.8

Galen, In Hippocratis De victu acutorum, Book 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/galen/in-hippocratis-de-victu-acutorum/4.8

Ἁλμυρὸν δὲ μηδὲν μήτε δριμὺ προσφέρειν· οὐ γὰρ ὑποίσει. Ὁ μὲν ἁλμυρὸς χυμὸς ὁποῖός τίς ἐστιν ἐν τοῖς ἁλσὶ φαίνεται· περὶ δὲ τῆς τοῦ δριμέος οὐσίας τε καὶ δυνάμεως εἴρηται κατὰ τὸ τέταρτον βιβλίον τῶν ἁπλῶν φαρμάκων, ὅτι πέπερι καὶ νᾶπυ καὶ πύρεθρον, ὅσα τ᾿ ἄλλα θερμὰ ταῖς δυνάμεσίν ἐστι καὶ δριμέα γευομένοις φαίνεται. ὡς οὖν συναυξάνοντα τὴν διάθεσιν τῶν καυσωδῶν, φεύγειν κελεύει τὰ δριμέα καὶ τὰ ἁλμυρά· ταῦτα δὲ καὶ ξηραίνει μᾶλλον τῶν δριμέων, εἰ καὶ μὴ παραπλησίως ἐκείνοις θερμαίνει, ἀλλ᾿ ἧττον.

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Galen, In Hippocratis De victu acutorum, 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.tlg087.local001/.