{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0627.tlg003.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg003.local001","title":"Prognosticon","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Hippocrates","authorityName":"HIPPOCRATES Med. et CORPUS HIP-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0627-hippocrates-med-et-corpus-hip/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0627-hippocrates-med-et-corpus-hip/","editors":["Émile Littré"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Oeuvres complètes d'Hippocrate","edition":null,"publisher":"Baillière","place":"Paris","date":"1840","volume":"2","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. 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Τὸν ἰητρὸν δοκέει μοι ἄριστον εἶναι πρόνοιαν ἐπιτηδεύειν· προγιγνώσκων γὰρ καὶ προλέγων παρὰ τοῖσι νοσέουσι τά τε παρεόντα καὶ τὰ προγεγονότα καὶ τὰ μέλλοντα ἔσεσθαι, ὁκόσα τε παραλείπουσιν οἱ ἀσθενέοντες ἐκδιηγεύμενος, πιστεύοιτ᾿ ἂν μᾶλλον γιγνώσκειν τὰ τῶν νοσεόντων πρήγματα, ὥστε τολμᾷν ἐπιτρέπειν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους σφέας ἑωυτοὺς τῷ ἰητρῷ. Τὴν δὲ θεραπείην ἄριστα ἂν ποιέοιτο, προειδὼς τὰ ἐσόμενα ἐκ τῶν παρεόντων παθημάτων. Ὑγιέας μὲν γὰρ ποιέειν ἅπαντας τοὺς ἀσθενέοντας ἀδύνατον· τοῦτο γὰρ τοῦ προγιγνώσκειν τὰ μέλλοντα ἀποβήσεσθαι κρέσσον ἂν ἦν· ἐπειδὴ δὲ οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἀποθνήσκουσιν, οἱ μὲν πρὶν ἢ καλέσαι τὸν ἰητρὸν, ὑπὸ τῆς ἰσχύος τῆς νούσου, οἱ δὲ καὶ ἐσκαλεσάμενοι παραχρῆμα ἐτελεύτησαν, οἱ μὲν ἡμέρην μίην ζήσαντες, οἱ δὲ ὀλίγῳ πλέονα χρόνον, πρὶν ἢ τὸν ἰητρὸν τῇ τέχνῃ πρὸς ἕκαστον νούσημα ἀνταγωνίσασθαι· γνῶναι οὖν χρὴ τῶν παθέων τῶν τοιουτέων τὰς φύσιας, ὁκόσον ὑπὲρ τὴν δύναμίν…","divisions":[{"label":"ΠΡΟΓΝΩΣΤΙΚΟΝ","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-21"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-22"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-23"},{"label":"Chapter 24","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-24"},{"label":"Chapter 25","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/#tlg0627-tlg003-local001-25"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0627.tlg003.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0627/tlg003/local001.json.gz"}}