Hippocrates, Praeceptiones, ed. William Henry Samuel Jones, 10

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[10] You must also avoid adopting, in order to gain a patient,¹ luxurious headgear and elaborate perfume. For excess of strangeness will win you ill-repute, but a little will be considered in good taste, just as pain in one part is a trifle, while in every part it is serious. Yet I do not forbid your trying to please, for it is not unworthy of a physician’s dignity.

Praeceptiones. Hippocrates. ed. William Henry Samuel Jones. London. 1923.

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

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Praeceptiones First1KGreek (Hippocrates. Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate, Vol. 9. Littré, Émile, editor. Paris: Baillière, 1861) — 10 focus

10. Φευκτέη δὲ καὶ θρύψις ἐπικρατίδων διὰ προσκύρησιν ἀκέσιος,
ὀδμή τε περίεργος· διὰ γὰρ ἱκανὴν ἀξυνηθείην διαβολὴν κέκτησαι,
διὰ δὲ τὴν ὀλίγην, εὐσχημοσύνην· ἐν γὰρ μέρει πόνος ὀλίγος, ἐν
πᾶσι ἱκανός. Εὐχαριστίην δὲ οὐ περιαιρέω· ἀξίη γὰρ ἰητρικῆς
προστασίης.

Παραγγελίαι Perseus (Hippocrates, Vol. 1. Jones, William Henry Samuel, editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1923 (printing).) — 10 focus

[10] Φευκτέη δὲ καὶ θρύψις ἐπικρατίδων διὰ προσκύρησιν ἀκέσιος, ὀδμή τε περίεργος· διὰ γὰρ ἱκανὴν ἀσυνηθείην διαβολὴν κεκτήσει, διὰ δὲ ὀλίγην, εὐσχημοσύνην· ἐν γὰρ μέρει πόνος ὀλίγος, ἐν πᾶσι ἱκανός. εὐχαρίην δὲ οὐ περιαιρέω· 6 ἀξίη γὰρ ἰητρικῆς προστασίης.

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1. Apparently, in order to increase your practice by fastidiousness in the matter of dress. But the expression is very strange, and should mean, in order to effect a cure.

Hippocrates Praeceptiones 10

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