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The Sacred Disease
ISBN-13:
9781911495826
Veröffentl:
2016
Seiten:
24
Autor:
Hippocrates
Serie:
Medical Library
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
NO DRM
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Hippocrates is considered to be the father of Western medicine. The Sacred Disease was one of his most famous works in which he proposed that diseases were natural, not supernatural. This was a radical idea at the time and went against the beliefs of many people. However, Hippocrates' theories were based on observation and logic, and he is now considered to be one of the most important figures in medicine.
It is thus with regard to the disease called Sacred: it appears to me to be nowise more divine nor more sacred than other diseases, but has a natural cause from the originates like other affections. Men regard its nature and cause as divine from ignorance and wonder, because it is not at all like to other diseases. And this notion of its divinity is kept up by their inability to comprehend it, and the simplicity of the mode by which it is cured, for men are freed from it by purifications and incantations. But if it is reckoned divine because it is wonderful, instead of one there are many diseases which would be sacred; for, as I will show, there are others no less wonderful and prodigious, which nobody imagines to be sacred.