Excerpt from Hippocrates, Vol. 1: With an English Translation The matter is even more striking than the style. The spirit is truly scientific, in the modern and strictest sense of the word. There is no superstition, and, except perhaps in the doctrine of critical days, no philosophy.2 Instead, there is close, even minute, observation of symptoms and their sequences, acute remarks on remedies, and recording, without in ference, of the atmospheric phenomena, which preceded or accompanied certain epidemics. Especially ...
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Excerpt from Hippocrates, Vol. 1: With an English Translation The matter is even more striking than the style. The spirit is truly scientific, in the modern and strictest sense of the word. There is no superstition, and, except perhaps in the doctrine of critical days, no philosophy.2 Instead, there is close, even minute, observation of symptoms and their sequences, acute remarks on remedies, and recording, without in ference, of the atmospheric phenomena, which preceded or accompanied certain epidemics. Especially noteworthy are the clinical histories, admirable for their inclusion of everything that is relevant and their exclusion of all that is not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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