Hippocrates, Praeceptiones, ed. Émile Littré, 5

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5. Καί τοι ἔνιοι νοσέοντες ἀλλάσσουσι, τὸ ξενοπρεπὲς καὶ τὸ ἄδηλον
προκρίνοντες, ἄξιοι μὲν ἀμελίης, οὐ μέντοι γε κολάσιος· διὸ
τουτέοισιν ἀντιτάξῃ εἰκότως μεταβολῆς ἐπὶ σάλου πορευομένοισιν. Τίς γὰρ ὦ πρὸς Διὸς ἠδελφισμένος ἰητρὸς ἰητρεύειν πεισθείη ἀτεραμνίῃ;
ὥστ’ ἐν ἀρχῇ ἀνακρίνοντα πᾶν πάθος μὴ οὐχ ὑποθέσθαι
τινὰ ξυμφέροντα ἐς θεραπηΐην, ἀποθεραπεῦσαί τε τὸν νοσέοντα καὶ
μὴ παριδεῖν.

Praeceptiones. Hippocrates. ed. Émile Littré. Paris. 1861.

Funding provided by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Praeceptiones (Greek) (Hippocrates. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Vol. 9. Littré, Émile, editor. Paris: Baillière, 1861)

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Παραγγελίαι Perseus (Hippocrates, Vol. 1. Jones, William Henry Samuel, editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1923 (printing).) — 5 focus

[5] καί τοι ἔνιοι νοσέοντες ἀξιοῦσι τὸ ξενοπρεπὲς καὶ τὸ ἄδηλον προκρίνοντες, ἄξιοι μὲν ἀμελείης, οὐ μέντοι γε κολάσιος. διὸ τούτοις ἀντιτάξει εἰκότως μεταβολῆς ἐπὶ σάλου πορευο μένοις. τίς γάρ, ὦ πρὸς Διός, ἠδελφισμένος ἰητρὸς ἰητρεύει τοσαύτῃ ἀτεραμνίῃ ὥστε ἐν ἀρχῇ ἀνακρίνοντα πᾶν πάθος μὴ οὐχ ὑποθέσθαι τινὰ συμφέροντα ἐς θεραπείην, ἀποθεραπεῦσαί τε τὸν νοσέοντα καὶ μὴ παριδεῖν τὴν ἐπικαρπίην, 10 ἄνευ τῆς ἐπισκευαζούσης ἐς μάθησιν ἐπιθυμίης;

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Precepts Perseus (Hippocrates, Vol. 1. Jones, William Henry Samuel, editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1923 (printing).) — 5 focus

[5] 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. For, in heaven’s name, who that is a brotherly¹ physician practises with such hardness of heart as not at the beginning to conduct a preliminary examination of every illness² and prescribe what will help towards a cure, to heal the patient and not to overlook the reward, to say nothing of the desire that makes a man ready to learn?

Hippocrates Praeceptiones 5

ed. Émile Littré

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