A condition too is desirable free from the late-learner’s faults. For his state accomplishes nothing that is immediate, and its remembrance of what is not before the eyes is but tolerable. So there arises a quarrelsome inefficiency, with headstrong outrage, that has no thought for what is seemly, while definitions, professions, oaths, great as far as the gods invoked are concerned,That is, the oaths frantically appeal to all the great gods. come from the physician in charge of the disease, bewildered laymen being lost in admiration of flowery language spoken in continuous reading and instruction, crowding together even before they are troubled by a disease.The construction and translation are uncertain. I believe that δρισμοῖς and the other datives are a Roman’s efforts at rendering into Greek ablatives of attendant circumstances, but ἐκ μεταφορῆς is puzzling, and can hardly be taken with λόγονς. Perhaps it is a Latinism. Cf. pastor ab Amphryso. Wherever I may be in charge of a case, with no confidence should I call in such men to help as consultants. For in them comprehension of seemly learning is far to seek. Seeing then that they cannot but be unintelligent, I urge that experience is useful, the learning of opinions coming far after. For who is desirous and ambitious of learning truly subtle diversities of opinion, to the neglect of calm and practised skill? Wherefore I advise you to listen to their words but to oppose their acts.

When regimen has been restricted you must not suppress for long a long-standing desire of the patient.Too strict a regimen may do harm by the patient’s using up his strength in conquering his appetites. Some such verb as κατέχειν must be substituted for ἐγχειρεῖν. In a chronic disease indulgence too helps to set a man on his feet again, if one pay the necessary attention to one who is blind.I. e. the patient does not know what is good for him. As great fear is to be guarded against, so is excessive joy. A sudden disturbance of the air is also to be guarded against.I. e. either (a) a draught or (b) a sudden change in the weather. The prime of life has everything lovely, the decline has the opposite. Incoherence of speech comes from an affection, or from the ears, or from the speaker’s talking of something fresh before he has uttered what was in his mind before, or from his thinking of fresh things before he has expressed what was in his thoughts before. Now this is a thing that happens without any visible affection socalled, mostly to those who are in love with their art. The power of youth, when the matter is trifling,Possibly, when the patient is not a big man. ὑποκείμενον, can mean patient in later Greek. is sometimes supremely great. Irregularity in a disease signifies that it will be a long one. A crisis is the riddance of a disease. A slight cause turns into a cure unless the affection be in a vital part. BecausePossibly, for the same reason that. fellow-feeling at grief causes distress, some are distressed through the fellow-feeling of another. Loud talking is painful. Overwork calls for gentle dissuasion.ὑποπαραίτησις is not found in the dictionaries, but may be correct. A woodedἀλυώδης is unmeaning, and I translate as though ἀλσώδης were in the text. district benefits.