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Empiric school

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school of medicine in ancient Greece and Rome

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  1. There was only this difference between them--the former were mercenary vagabonds, travelling about to different states, making a show of their wisdom, and requiring pay; the latter more dignified and noble, in possession of fixed habitations, opening schools, and teaching philosophy gratuitously. Both, however (though differing in other respects), were professorial, and reduced every subject to controversy…

    Francis Bacon, Novum organum

    Close in meaning to Empiric school; the term itself is not named.

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  2. But it left him to learn them of such masters as he could find; and it seems to have advanced nothing for this purpose, but a public field or place of exercise, in which he should practise and perform them. In the early ages, both of the Greek and Roman republics, the other parts of education seem to have consisted in learning to read, write, and account, according to the arithmetic of the times. These…

    Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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  3. In addition to all this, he had excellent opportunities of estimating the good and bad effects resulting from the application of gymnastic exercises in the cure of diseases, under the tuition of Herodicus, the first person who is known for certain to have cultivated this art as a branch of medicine.[25] He was further instructed in the polite literature and philosophy of the age, by two men of classical celebrity…

    Hippocrates, The genuine works of Hippocrates, Vol. 1

    Close in meaning to Empiric school; the term itself is not named.

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Part of Empiricism.

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