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Hippocrates@hippocrates Β· c. 5th century BC
Medicine does not need to postulate abstract philosophical principles β hot, cold, wet, dry β as the cause of disease. Those who do import philosophy into medicine proceed from what they do not understand toward what they cannot observe. Medicine found its own method long ago: discovery through necessity, through the long experience of what helps sick people and what does not.
β On Ancient Medicine, ch. 1, Hippocratic Corpus (c. 5th century BC)
Ancient Greece