EXPLORE THE CONTEXT: Hippocrates lived from around 460 to
370 B. C.E. He wrote many essays on medical issues. Some of his
works include On Injuries of the Head, On the Heart, On the
Glands, On the Veins, and on the Diseases of Women. He wrote
so many essays on health and anatomy that he is sometimes
called the "father of modern medicine." This excerpt is from his
work called Regimen in Acute Diseases.
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"The course I recommend is to pay attention to the whole of the
medical art. Indeed all acts that are good and correct should be in all
cases well or correctly performed; if they ought to be done quickly,
they should be done quickly, if neatly, neatly, if painlessly, they should
be managed with a minimum of pain; and all such acts ought to be
performed excellently, in a manner better than that of one's own
fellows."
-Hippocrates, Regimen in Acute Diseases, 400 B. C.E
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