on the sacred disease-第5章
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to be understood by the inexperienced; fall upon the brain。
And the disease called the Sacred arises from causes as the
others; namely; those things which enter and quit the body; such as
cold; the sun; and the winds; which are ever changing and are never at
rest。 And these things are divine; so that there is no necessity for
making a distinction; and holding this disease to be more divine
than the others; but all are divine; and all human。 And each has its
own peculiar nature and power; and none is of an ambiguous nature;
or irremediable。 And the most of them are curable by the same means as
those by which any other thing is food to one; and injurious to
another。 Thus; then; the physician should understand and distinguish
the season of each; so that at one time he may attend to the
nourishment and increase; and at another to abstraction and
diminution。 And in this disease as in all others; he must strive not
to feed the disease; but endeavor to wear it out by administering
whatever is most opposed to each disease; and not that which favors
and is allied to it。 For by that which is allied to it; it gains vigor
and increase; but it wears out and disappears under the use of that
which is opposed to it。 But whoever is acquainted with such a change
in men; and can render a man humid and dry; hot and cold by regimen;
could also cure this disease; if he recognizes the proper season for
administering his remedies; without minding purifications; spells; and
all other illiberal practices of a like kind。
THE END
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