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The Book of Prognostics

Author
Hippocrates
Series
Medical Library
Language
English
Length
28 pages
ISBN
9781911495789
Published
9 August 2016
Imprint
The Big Nest
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The Book of Prognostics is a text written by Hippocrates, a Greek physician who lived in the 5th century BCE. The book contains advice on how to diagnosis and prognose patients based on their symptoms.

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Hippocrates (c. 460–370 BC) is the figure most closely associated with the birth of rational medicine in the ancient Greek world. The Hippocratic Corpus — essays, case histories, and aphorisms long attributed to him and his school — sought to explain illness through observation rather than superstition. His name survives in the physician's oath and in the ideal of medicine as a humane, disciplined art grounded in evidence and care.

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