On Ancient Medicine

By Hippocrates

Book Id: WPLBN0000217867
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	On Ancient Medicine
Author:	Hippocrates
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


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Excerpt
PART 1: 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 practitioners, 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.

Table of Contents
· PART 1 · PART 2 · PART 3 · PART 4 · PART 5 · PART 6 · PART 7 · PART 8 · PART 9 · PART 10 · PART 11 · PART 12 · PART 13 · PART 14 · PART 15 · PART 16 · PART 17 · PART 18 · PART 19 · PART 20 · PART 21 · PART 22 · PART 23 · PART 24