# De natura ossium 4

Hippocrates, De natura ossium, Chapter 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippocrates/de-natura-ossium/4

4. Αὗται δὲ αἱ φλέβες ἐφ’ ἑκάτερα διχῇ τὰ μέγιστα σχίζονται, τὰ μὲν ἔνθεν τοῦ νεφροῦ ἑκατέρου, τὰ δὲ ἔνθεν, καὶ διατέτρηνται ἐς τοὺς νεφρούς. Καὶ εἶδος καρδίης οἱ νεφροὶ ἔχουσι· καὶ οὗτοι κοιλιώδεες· ὁ δὲ νεφρὸς τὰ κοῖλα ἑωυτοῦ πρὸς τὰς φλέβας ἔχων κεῖται τὰς μεγάλας· ὅθεν ἐκπεφύκασιν ἐξ αὐτέου αἱ φλέβες αἱ ἐς κύστιν, ᾗ εἵλκετο τὸ ποτὸν διὰ τῶν φλεβῶν ἐς τοὺς νεφρούς· ἔπειθ’ ὥσπερ καὶ διὰ τῶν νεφρῶν διηθεῖται τὸ ὕδωρ καὶ δι’ αὐτέων τουτέων τῶν ἐντέρων, ὧν ξυνεπακολουθεῖ, Σπογγοειδὲς γάρ ἐστι τὸ ἀπ’ αὐτέων ἐς τὴν κύστιν, καὶ ἐνταῦθα διηθούμενον καὶ ἀποκρινόμενον ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος τὸ οὖρον, διὸ δὴ ἐρυθρόν ἐστιν· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐς τοὺς νεφροὺς ἦσαν ἄλλαι φλέβες ἢ αἳ εἴρηνται, οὐδ’ ὅποι ἂν τὸ ποτὸν ξυντήκοιτο, ὅσον ἐγὼ οἶδα.

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Hippocrates, De natura ossium, ed. Émile Littré. 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/tlg0627.tlg048.local001/.