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ἐν τῇσιν ἀνακομιδῇσι τῇσιν ἐκ τῶν νούσων, ἔτι δὲ καὶ ἐν τῇσι νούσοισι τῇσι μακρῇσι γίνονται πολλαὶ συνταράξιες, αἱ μὲν ἀπὸ τωὐτομάτου, αἱ δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν προσενεχθέντων τῶν [p. 56] τυχόντων. οἶδα δὲ τοὺς πολλοὺς ἰητρούς, ὥσπερ τοὺς ἰδιώτας, ἢν τύχωσι περὶ τὴν ἡμέρην ταύτην τι κεκαινουργηκότες, ἢ λουσάμενοι ἢ περιπατήσαντες ἢ φαγόντες τι ἑτεροῖον, ταῦτα δὲ πάντα βελτίω προσενηνεγμένα ἢ μή, οὐδὲν ἧσσον τὴν [10] αἰτίην τούτων τινὶ ἀνατιθέντας καὶ τὸ μὲν αἴτιον ἀγνοεῦντας, τὸ δὲ συμφορώτατον, ἢν οὕτω τύχῃ, ἀφαιρέοντας. δεῖ δὲ οὔ, ἀλλ᾽ εἰδέναι, τί λουτρὸν ἀκαίρως προσγενόμενον ἐργάσεται ἢ τί κόπος. οὐδέποτε γὰρ ἡ αὐτὴ κακοπάθεια τούτων οὐδετέρου, οὐδέ γε ἀπὸ πληρώσιος οὐδ᾽ ἀπὸ βρώματος τοίου ἢ τοίου. ὅστις οὖν ταῦτα μὴ εἴσεται ὡς ἕκαστα ἔχει πρὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον, οὔτε γινώσκειν τὰ [18] γινόμενα ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν δυνήσεται οὔτε χρῆσθαι ὀρθῶς.
Hippocrates Collected Works I. Hippocrates. W. H. S. Jones. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1868.
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