On Ancient Medicine

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Author: Hippocrates ISBN: 9781465528032
Publisher: Library of Alexandria Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Hippocrates
ISBN: 9781465528032
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English
Whoever having undertaken to speak or write on Medicine, have first laid down for Themselves some hypoThesis to Their argument, such as hot, or cold, or moist, or dry, or whatever else They choose (thus reducing Their subject within a narrow compass, and supposing only one or two original causes of diseases or of death among mankind), are all clearly mistaken in much that They say; and this is The more reprehensible as relating to an art which all men avail Themselves of on The most important occasions, and The good operators and practitioners in which They hold in especial honor. For There are ractitioners, some bad and some far Otherwise, which, if There had been no such thing as Medicine, and if nothing had been investigated or found out in it, would not have been The case, but all would have been equally unskilled and ignorant of it, and everything concerning The sick would have been directed by chance. But now it is not so; for, as in all The Other arts, those who practise Them differ much from one another in dexterity and knowledge, so is it in like manner with Medicine. Wherefore I have not thought that it stood in need of an empty hypoThesis, like those subjects which are occult and dubious, in attempting to handle which it is necessary to use some hypoThesis; as, for example, with regard to things above us and things below The earth; if any one should treat of These and undertake to declare how They are constituted, The reader or hearer could not find out, wheTher what is delivered be true or false; for There is nothing which can be referred to in order to discover The truth.
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Whoever having undertaken to speak or write on Medicine, have first laid down for Themselves some hypoThesis to Their argument, such as hot, or cold, or moist, or dry, or whatever else They choose (thus reducing Their subject within a narrow compass, and supposing only one or two original causes of diseases or of death among mankind), are all clearly mistaken in much that They say; and this is The more reprehensible as relating to an art which all men avail Themselves of on The most important occasions, and The good operators and practitioners in which They hold in especial honor. For There are ractitioners, some bad and some far Otherwise, which, if There had been no such thing as Medicine, and if nothing had been investigated or found out in it, would not have been The case, but all would have been equally unskilled and ignorant of it, and everything concerning The sick would have been directed by chance. But now it is not so; for, as in all The Other arts, those who practise Them differ much from one another in dexterity and knowledge, so is it in like manner with Medicine. Wherefore I have not thought that it stood in need of an empty hypoThesis, like those subjects which are occult and dubious, in attempting to handle which it is necessary to use some hypoThesis; as, for example, with regard to things above us and things below The earth; if any one should treat of These and undertake to declare how They are constituted, The reader or hearer could not find out, wheTher what is delivered be true or false; for There is nothing which can be referred to in order to discover The truth.

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