# De medico 4

Hippocrates, De medico, Chapter 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/hippocrates/de-medico/4

4. Ἔστι δὲ οἰκείη ἐπίδεσις τῆς ἰητρικῆς, ἀφ’ ἧς ὠφελεῖσθαι τὸν θεραπευόμενον [δεῖ]· μέγιστα δὲ ὠφελεῖ δύο ταῦτα, οἷς ἐστι χρηστἔον, πιέσαι ὅκου δεῖ καὶ ἀνειμένως ἐπιδῆσαι· πρὸς δὲ τοὺς χρονοὺς τῆς ὥρης, πότε δεῖ σκεπαστικῶς καὶ μὴ, συνορῇν, ὅκως μηδὲ [τὸν] ἀσθενῆ λελήθῃ, ὡς ποτέρῳ τούτων ἐνιαχοῦ χρηστέον· εὐρύθμους δὲ ἐπιδεσίας καὶ θεητρικὰς μηδὲν ὠφελούσας ἀπογινώσκειν· φορτικὸν γὰρ τὸ τοιοῦτον καὶ παντελῶς ἀλαζονικὸν, πολλάκις τε βλάβην οἶσον τῷ θεραπευομένῳ· ζητεῖ δὲ ὁ νοσέων οὐ καλλωπισμὸν, ἀλλὰ τὸ συμφέρον.

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Hippocrates, De medico, ed. Émile Littré. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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