Britannica Great Books: Hippocrates and Galen

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Britannica Great Books: Hippocrates and Galen

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I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation—to reckon him who taught me ... (show all)this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve his necessities if required; to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or stipulation; and that by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the Art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according to the law of medicine, but to none others.

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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)These facts, also, will afford abundant proof of what has already been said about the arteries; everywhere, in fact, such blood as is both specifically appropriate and at the same time thin in consistency answers more readily to their traction than does blood which is not so; this is why the arteries which, in their diastole, absorb vapour, pneuma, and thin blood attract either none at all or very little of the juices contained in the stomach and intestines.

Disambiguation notice

This is an omnibus containing both Hippocrates' Hippocratic Writings and Galen's On the Natural World; it should not be combined with either individual work.
It is Volume 10 of the first (Robert Maynard Hutchins) ed... (show all)ition of the Great Books, Volume 9 of the second (Mortimer J Adler) edition.