"OATH AND LAW OF HIPPOCRATES" - читать интересную книгу автора (Hippocrates)

the tenets of our teacher are, as it were, the seed; instruction in
youth is like the planting of the seed in the ground at the proper
season; the place where the instruction is communicated is like the
food imparted to vegetables by the atmosphere; diligent study is like
the cultivation of the fields; and it is time which imparts strength
to all things and brings them to maturity.

4. Having brought all these requisites to the study of medicine,
and having acquired a true knowledge of it, we shall thus, in travelling
through the cities, be esteemed physicians not only in name but in
reality. But inexperience is a bad treasure, and a bad fund to those
who possess it, whether in opinion or reality, being devoid of
self-reliance and contentedness, and the nurse both of timidity and
audacity. For timidity betrays a want of powers, and audacity a lack
of skill. They are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of
which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be
ignorant.

5. Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred
persons; and it is not lawful to impart them to the profane until
they have been initiated into the mysteries of the science.

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