Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, 9. CHIEF DISEASES MENTIONED IN THE HIPPOCRATIC COLLECTION., Pain

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Pain

There are two common words for pain in the Corpus, πόνος and ὀδύνη. They seem practically synonymous. Perhaps πόνος is more commonly used of violent pains, and ὀδύνη of dull, gnawing pains, but I think that no reader would care to pronounce a confident opinion on the matter.

Hippocrates Collected Works I. Hippocrates. W. H. S. Jones. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1868.

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