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Medicine

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field of study for diagnosing, treating and preventing disease

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2. There is no reason to suppose that the germs of medical science, any more than those of philosophy, had been originally imported into Greece from the East. 3. The earliest practitioners of medicine concerning whom we have any authentic information, were the Asclepiadæ, or priest-physicians, who endeavored to cure the sick partly by superstitious modes of working upon the imagination, and partly by more rational…
Hippocrates, The genuine works of Hippocrates, Vol. 1
Names Medicine several times; states what Medicine is.
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Is not that true? Quite true. And medicine is distinguished from other sciences as having the subject-matter of health and disease? Yes. And he who would enquire into the nature of medicine must pursue the enquiry into health and disease, and not into what is extraneous? True.
Plato, Charmides
Names Medicine several times; states what Medicine is.
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They fail to see that against one life saved by the doctors you must set a hundred slain, and against the value of one truth discovered the errors which creep in with it. The science which instructs and the medicine which heals are no doubt excellent, but the science which misleads us and the medicine which kills us are evil. Teach us to know them apart. That is the real difficulty.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
Names Medicine several times; states what Medicine is.
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