On Ancient Medicine

Hippocrates

On Ancient Medicine
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing Co
Country
United States
Published
17 June 2004
Pages
48
ISBN
9781419138331

On Ancient Medicine

Hippocrates

What other object, then, had he in view who is called a physician, and is admitted to be a practitioner of the art, who found out the regimen and diet befitting the sick, than he who originally found out and prepared for all mankind that kind of food which we all now use, in place of the former savage and brutish mode of living? To me it appears that the mode is the same, and the discovery of a similar nature. The one sought to abstract those things which the constitution of man cannot digest, because of their wildness and intemperature, and the other those things which are beyond the powers of the affection in which any one may happen to be laid up. Now, how does the one differ from the other, except that the latter admits of greater variety, and requires more application, whereas the former was the commencement of the process?

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