On Regimen in Acute Diseases
On Regimen in Acute Diseases

Author: Hippocrates

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-12-20

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9781522850250

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"On Regimen in Acute Diseases" from Hippocrates. Ancient Greek physician and has been called the father of medicine (460 BCE-380 BCE).

Hippocrates: Regimen in acute diseases
Hippocrates: Regimen in acute diseases

Author: Hippocrates

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Published: 1988

Total Pages: 400

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Hippocrates, said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BCE, learned medicine and philosophy; travelled widely as a medical doctor and teacher; was consulted by King Perdiccas of Macedon and Artaxerxes of Persia; and died perhaps at Larissa. Apparently he rejected superstition in favour of inductive reasoning and the study of real medicine as subject to natural laws, in general and in individual people as patients for treatment by medicines and surgery. Of the roughly 70 works in the Hippocratic Collection," many are not by Hippocrates; even the famous oath may not be his. But he was undeniably the "Father of Medicine."

On Regimen in Acute Diseases
On Regimen in Acute Diseases

Author: Hippocrates

Publisher:

Published: 2004-06

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781419238543

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The greater part of my discourse has related to changes, this way or that. For all purposes it is profitable to know these things, and more especially respecting the subject under consideration, - that in acute diseases, in which a change is made to ptisans from a state of inanition, it should be made as I direct; and then that ptisans should not be used until the disease be concocted, or some other symptom, whether of evacuation or of irritation, appear in the intestines, or in the hypochondria, such as will be described. Obstinate insomnolency impairs the digestion of the food and drink, and in other respects changes and relaxes the body, and occasions a heated state, and heaviness of the head