Names of body parts in English, 1400–1550

papers by Gourevitch and Hanson), and with Hippocratic notions of diet. Smith and Thivel both try in different ways to identify the contribution to therapeutics of the historical Hippocrates, but reach very different conclusions, although both suggest that we should look to some aspect of dietetics and their arguments contain much that is of value beyond the Corpus. Surgery as such is hardly mentioned, and the absence of any paper on drugs and drug therapy in the Corpus is a serious gap. Two more general papers look at the relationship between homoeopathy and allopathy in the Hippocratic writings (a somewhat confused piece) and at possible reasons for the success of the Hippocratic physician in the face of strong competition. This paper (by Demand) offers a variety of insights from anthropology to explain this success, but does not become involved with practical questions. None the less, this is a very useful volume, simply through bringing together so many insights into this general theme, and, after all, a volume of conference papers can only contain what was offered to the conference. It is interesting to see how relatively seldom the authors stray from the more familiar treatises of the Corpus, which now include the gynaecological ones. Coan Prognoses, Prorrhetic II, Affections, and the surgical treatises are rarely quoted except by those authors who are talking more about reception and transformation than about the validity of the contents of the treatises. The valuable index of passages cited offers much food for thought, as does the very detailed bibliography. This conference also marks the substantial arrival of Spanish Hippocratic scholarship with no fewer than ten papers by Spanish scholars, mostly of a lexicographical content. This contrasts with the four speakers from Britain and the mere three from the USA. Much of this Spanish work is extremely technical, and can sometimes amount to little more than listing, but there are signs in several papers that a careful reading of Hippocratic Greek can reveal a good deal about some of the suppositions behind the method of composition. This may not be quite what is meant by the history of therapeutics, but it offers at times new insights into the formative period of Greek medicine.