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-I swear by Apollo Physician, by Asclepius, by Health, by Panacea and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgment, this oath and this indenture. To hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture; to impart precept,physicians’ union.
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-Nutriment and form of nutriment, one and many. One, inasmuch as its kind is one; form varies with moistness or dryness. These foods too have their forms
It increases, strengthens, clothes with flesh, makes like, makes unlike, what is in the several parts, according to the nature of each part and its original power.
It makes into the likeness of a power, when the nutriment that comes in has the mastery, and when that is mastered which was there to begin with.
It also loses its qualities; sometimes the earlier nutriment, when in time it has been liberated or added, sometimes the later, when in time it has been liberated or added.
Both are weakened in time and after a time by the nutriment from without which has continuously entered in, and for a long time firmly has interwoven itself with all the limbs.
And it sends forth shoots of its own proper form. It changes the old form and descends; it nourishes as it is digested. Sometimes it alters the earlier form, and completely obscures the former ones.
Power of nutriment reaches to bone and to all the parts of bone, to sinew, to vein, to artery, to muscle, to membrane, to flesh, fat, blood, phlegm, marrow, brain, spinal marrow, the intestines and all their parts; it reaches also to heat, breath, and moisture.
Nutriment is that which is nourishing; nutriment is that which is fit to nourish; nutriment is that which is about to nourish.
The beginning of all things is one and the end of all things is one, and the end and beginning are the same.
And all the particular details in nourishment are managed well or ill; well if as aforesaid, ill if ordered in the opposite way to these.
Juices varied in colours and in powers, to harm or to help, or neither to harm nor to help, varied in amount, excess or defect, in combination of some but not of others.
And to the warming of all it harms or helps, to the cooling it harms or helps, to the power it harms or helps.
Of power varied natures.
Humours corrupting whole, part, from without, from within, spontaneous, not spontaneous; spontaneous for us, not spontaneous for the cause. Of the cause, part is clear, part is obscure, part is within our power and part is not.
Nature is sufficient in all for all.
To deal with nature from without : plaster, anointing, salve, uncovering of whole or part, covering of whole or part, warming or cooling similarly, astriction, ulceration, biting,
Secretions in accordance with nature, by the bowels, urine, sweat, sputum, mucus, womb, through hemorrhoid, wart, leprosy, tumour, carcinoma, from nostrils, lungs, bowels, seat, penis, in accordance with nature or contrary to nature. The peculiar differences in these things depend on differences in the individual, on times and on methods. All these things are one nature and not one. All these things are many natures and one nature.
Purging upward or downward, neither upward nor downward.
In nutriment purging excellent, in nutriment purging bad; bad or excellent according to circumstances.
Ulceration, burn-scab, blood, pus, lymph, leprosy, scurf, dandruff, scurvy, white leprosy, freckles, sometimes harm and sometimes help, and sometimes neither harm nor help.
Nutriment not nutriment if it have not its power. Not nutriment nutriment if it can nourish. Nutriment in name, not in deed; nutriment in deed, not in name.
It travels from within to hair, nails, and to the extreme surface; from without nutriment travels from the extreme surface to the innermost parts.
Conflux one, conspiration one, all things in sympathy; all the parts as forming a whole, and severally the parts in each part, with reference to the work.
The great beginning travels to the extreme part; from the extreme part there is travelling to the great beginning. One nature to be and not to be.
Differences of diseases depend on nutriment, on breath, on heat, on blood, on phlegm, on bile, on humours, on flesh, on fat, on vein, on artery, on sinew, muscle, membrane, bone, brain, spinal marrow, mouth, tongue, oesophagus, stomach, bowels, midriff, peritoneum, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, womb, skin. All these things both as a whole and severally. Their greatness great and not great.
Signs : tickling, ache, rupture, mind, sweat, sediment in urine, rest, tossing, condition
Sweet, not sweet; sweet in power, like water, sweet to the taste, like honey. Signs of either are sores, eyes and tastings, which can also distinguish degrees. Sweet to sight, in colours and in combinations generally, sweet to a greater or less degree.
Porousness of a body for transpiration healthy for those from whom more is taken; denseness of body for transpiration unhealthy for those from whom less is taken. Those who transpire freely are weaker, healthier, and recover easily; those who transpire hardly are stronger before they are sick, but on falling sick they make difficult recovery. These for both whole and part.
The lungs draw a nourishment which is the opposite of that of the body, all other parts draw the same.
Beginning of nutriment of breath, nostrils, mouth, throat, lungs, and the transpiratory system generally. Beginning of nutriment, both wet and dry, mouth, oesophagus, stomach. The more ancient nutriment, through the epigastrium, where the navel is.
Root of veins, liver; root of arteries, heart. Out of these travel to all parts blood and breath, and heat passes through them.
Power one, and not one, by which all these things and those of a different sort are managed; one for the life of whole and part, not one for the sensation of whole and part.
Milk nutriment, for those to whom milk is a natural nutriment, but for others it is not. For some wine is nutriment, for others not. So with meats and the other many forms of nutriment, the differences being due to place and habit.
Nourishment is sometimes into growth and being, sometimes into being only, as is the case with old men; sometimes in addition it is into strength. The condition of the athlete is not natural. A healthy state is superior in all.
It is a great thing successfully to adapt quantity to power.
Milk and blood are what is left over from nutriment.
Periods generally harmonise for the embryo and its nutriment; and again nutriment tends upwards to milk and the nourishment of the baby.
Inanimates get life, animates get life, the parts of animates get life.
The natures of all are untaught.
Blood of another is useful, one's own blood is useful; blood of another is harmful, one's own blood is harmful; one's own humours are harmful, humours of another are harmful; humours of another are beneficial, one's own humours are beneficial; the harmonious is unharmonious, the unharmonious is harmonious; another's milk is good, one's own milk is bad; another's milk is harmful, one's own milk is useful.
Food for the young partly digested, for the old completely changed, for adults unchanged.
For formation, thirty-five days; for movement, seventy days; for completion, two hundred and ten days. Others, for form, forty-five days; for motion, ninety days; for delivery, two hundred and seventy days. Others, fifty for form; for the first leap, one hundred; for completion, three hundred days. For distinction of limbs, forty; for shifting, eighty; for detachment, two hundred and forty days. It is not and is. There are found therein both more and less, in respect of both the whole and the parts, but the more is not much more, and the less not much less.
Nutriment of bones after breaking; for the nostril, twice five; for jaw, collar-bone and ribs, twice this; for the fore-arm, thrice; for the leg and upper-arm, four times; for the thigh, five times; there may be, however, in these a little more or less.
Blood is liquid and blood is solid. Liquid blood is good, liquid blood is bad. Solid blood is good, solid blood is bad. All things are good or bad relatively.
The way up, down.
Power of nutriment superior to mass; mass of nutriment superior to power; both in moist things and in dry.
It takes away and adds not the same thing; it takes away from one, and adds to another, the same thing.
Pulsations of veins and breathing of the lungs according to age, harmonious and unharmonious, signs of disease and of health, and of health more than of disease, and of disease more than of health. For breath too is nutriment.
Liquid nutriment more easily changed than solid; solid nutriment more easily changed than liquid. That which is hardly altered is hard of digestion, and that which is easily added is easy of digestion.
And for such as need a quick reinforcement, a liquid remedy is best for recovery of power; for such as need a quicker, a remedy through smell; for those who need a slower reinforcement, solid nutriment.
Muscles being more solid waste less easily than other parts, save bone and sinew. Parts that have been exercised resist change, being according to their kind stronger than they otherwise would have been, and therefore less liable to waste.
Pus comes from flesh; pus-like lymph comes from blood and moisture generally. Pus is nutriment for a sore; lymph is nutriment for vein and artery.
Marrow nutriment of bone, and through this a callus forms.
Power gives to all things increase, nourishment and birth.
Moisture the vehicle of nutriment.
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-Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. However, knowing this, one must attend in medical practice not primarily to plausible theories,term (e. g. man
), proposition (e. g. man is mortal
). Later on it means the use of Theory
and theorising
are the nearest equivalents I can think of.I. e., if the general statement from which we deduce conclusions be a plausible but untrue hypothesis. Conclusions drawn from such hypotheses lead to nowhere.
But conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalisations also,even from beginning to end.
the art of medicine.
For so to do will bestow a very great advantage upon sick folk and medical practitioners. Do not hesitate to inquire of laymen, if thereby there seems likely to result any improvement in treatment. For so I think the whole art has been set forth, by observing some part of the final end in each of many particulars, and then combining all into a single whole. So one must pay attention to generalities in incidents, with help and quietness rather than with professions and the excuses that accompany ill-success.
Early determination ofthe patient’s —since only what has actually been administered will benefit; emphatic assertion is of no use—is beneficial but complicated. For it is through many turns and changes that all diseases settle into some sort of permanence.
This piece of advice also will need our consideration, as it contributes somewhat to the whole. For should you begin by discussing fees, you will suggest to the patient either that you will go away and leave him if no agreement be reached, or that you will neglect him and not prescribe any immediate treatment. So one must not be anxious about fixing a fee. For I consider such a worry to be harmful to a troubled patient, particularly if the disease be acute. For the quickness of the disease, offering no opportunity for turning back,I. e. from missed opportunities that have passed away while haggling over fees. It is possible that to upset.
An acute disease is not the time to upset a patient with financial worries.to tease.
And yet some patients ask for what is out of the way and doubtful, through prejudice, deserving indeed to be disregarded, but not to be punished. Wherefore you must reasonably oppose them, as they are embarked upon a stormy sea of change. Corpus in the sense of related.
Here it evidently means a loyal member of the family of physicians.
all the illness.
I urge you not to be too unkind, but to consider carefully your patient’s superabundance or means. Sometimes give your services for nothing, calling to mind a previous benefaction or present satisfaction.your present reputation.
Now those who are buried in deep ignorance of the art cannot appreciate what has been said. In fact such men will be shown up as ignorant of brother of the art
as he is called, would be at his best. But he who accomplishes his cures easily without making a mistake would transgress none of these methods through want of power;serious,
alarming.
Changing their doctor every day.
The version in the text means that the patients frequently change their minds as do quacks, or as doctors must be ready to change their treatment at a moment’s notice.they become poor by showing gratitude to quacks, when they might be well off by employing qualified men.
i. e. of employing a qualified medical man.
So much for such recommendations. For remission and aggravation of a disease require respectively less or more medical assistance. A physician does not violate etiquette even if, being in difficulties on occasion over a patient and in the dark through inexperience, he should urge the calling in of others, in order to learn by consultation the truth about the case, and in order that there may be fellow-workers to afford abundant help. For when a diseased condition is stubborn and the evil grows, in the perplexity of the moment most things go wrong. So on such occasions one must be bold.on such occasions one must not be self-confident.
I. e. that because a consultant is necessary the fault lies with the art of medicine.
With all these things it will appear strong evidence for the reality of the art if a physician, while skilfully treating the patient, does not refrain from exhortations not to worry in mind in the eagerness to reach the hour of recovery. For we physicians take the lead in what is necessary for health. And if he be under orders the patient will not go far astray. For left to themselves patients sink through their painful condition, give up the struggle and depart this life. But he who has taken the sick man in hand, if he display the discoveries of the art, preserving nature, not trying to alter it, will sweep away the present depression or the distrust of the moment. For the healthy condition of a human being is a nature that has naturally attained a movement, not alien but perfectly adapted, having I. e. try to bring the patient back to his normal condition.
You must also avoid adopting, in order to gain a patient,in order to effect a cure.
Bear in mind the employment of instruments and the pointing out of significant symptoms, and so forth.
And if for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry. For I forbid in medical practice an industry not pertinent to the art, and laboriously far-fetched,
A condition too is desirable free from the late-learner’s faults. For his state accomplishes nothing that is immediate, and its remembrance of what is not before the eyes is but tolerable. So there arises a quarrelsome inefficiency, with headstrong outrage, that has no thought for what is seemly, while definitions, professions, oaths, great as far as the gods invoked are concerned,ablatives of attendant circumstances,
but pastor ab Amphryso.
When regimen has been restricted you must I. e. the patient does not know what is good for him.I. e. either (a) a draught or (b) a sudden change in the weather.visible affection
socalled, mostly to those who are in love with their art. The power of youth, when the matter is trifling,when the patient is not a big man.
patient
in later Greek.for the same reason that.