Note 203 — PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE. (continued 2)
Francis Adams translation
Hippocrates, in his treatise ‘On Diet in Acute Diseases,’ says decidedly that the ancients—that is to say, his predecessors—had written nothing of any value on the subject of Dietetics (§ 1). From this we may infer that the present work was not known in his days; for it can scarcely be supposed that he would have spoken so disparagingly of it.