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The genuine works of Hippocrates, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Note 363 — ON ANCIENT MEDICINE.

Francis Adams translation

Καθαρὸς ἄρτος ἢ συγκομιστός. There has been some difference of opinion regarding these two kinds of bread; but it appears to me probable that the former was made of flour from which the bran had been entirely excluded, and the other from flour containing the whole of the bran. Later authorities called the one siligo, and the other autopyrus. See Paulus Ægineta, Vol. I., p. 121.

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