{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg067.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg067.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg067.local001","title":"Ad Glauconem de methodo medendi","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Galen","authorityName":"GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","editors":["Karl Gottlob Kühn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Knobloch","place":"Leipzig","date":"1826","volume":"11","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation","sponsors":[],"funders":["Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Keyboarding","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hxpp8s?urlappend=%3Bseq=12","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. Ad Glauconem de methodo medendi. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Leipzig, Knobloch, 1826. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg067.local001","excerpt":"Ὅτι μὲν οὐ τὴν κοινὴν μόνον ἁπάντων ἀνθρώπων φύσιν, ὦ Γλαύκων, ἐπίστασθαι χρὴ τὸν ἰατρὸν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ἰδίαν ἑκάστου, πάλαι τε πρὸς Ἱπποκράτους ὀρθῶς εἴρηται καὶ ἡμῖν δὲ ἐπ’ αὐτῶν, ὡς οἶσθα, τῶν ἔργων τῆς τέχνης ἱκανῶς ἐσπούδασται. οὐ μὴν γράφειν γε δυνατὸν, ὥσπερ τὴν κοινὴν, οὕτω καὶ τὴν ἰδίαν ἑκάστου, ἀλλ’ ὑπεναντίως ἔχει τὰ γράμματα πρὸς τὰς πράξεις, ἄλλοθί τε πολλαχόθι καὶ οὐχ ἥκιστα ἐν τοῖς νῦν ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ προκειμένοις. ἠξίωσας μὲν γὰρ ἡμᾶς, ἰαμάτων τινά σοι καθόλου μέθοδον ὑποτυπώσασθαι· περαίνεται δὲ αὕτη διά τε ποιότητος καὶ ποσότητος ἑκάστου τῶν βοηθημάτων καὶ τοῦ τρόπου τῆς χρήσεως αὐτῶν καὶ τοῦ πάντων τούτων χαλεπωτάτου διαγνωσθῆναι καιροῦ. περὶ ὃν ὀξὺν ἱκανῶς ὄντα, καθάπερ που καὶ τοῦτό φησιν ὁ πάντων ἡμῖν τῶν καλῶν ἡγεμὼν Ἱπποκράτης, σφαλλομένους πολλάκις ὁρᾷς οὐ τοὺς τυχόντας μόνον, ἀλλὰ δὴ καὶ τοὺς ἀρίστους ἰατρούς. καὶ μὲν δὴ καὶ μέγα τὸ ποσὸν εὐστόχως συναρμοσθὲν εἰς…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg067.local001/#tlg0057-tlg067-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg067.local001/#tlg0057-tlg067-local001-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg067.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg067.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg067/local001.json.gz"}}