Seek the counsel of the physician of antiquity.
Enquire how the present airs and seasons may dispose thy body to health or sickness
I swear by Apollo the physician, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfil according to my ability and judgment this oath and this covenant.
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The consulting physician within hath read deeply in the following primary texts, preserved in translation for the modern reader. When he cites an authority, he draws from these very pages — not from memory alone, but from the living record of the ancients.
Hippocrates — Aphorisms · Airs, Waters, and Places · Prognostics · On the Sacred Disease · On Regimen in Acute Diseases · The Epidemics · On Ancient Medicine · The Law · The Oath · Precepts · Nutriment · On the Surgery · On Fractures · On the Articulations · On Ulcers · On Fistulae · On Haemorrhoids · On Injuries of the Head · Mochlicus
Galen of Pergamon — On the Natural Faculties · On the Nature of Man According to Hippocrates · On the Elements According to Hippocrates · On Diagnosis from Dreams · Exhortation to the Study of the Arts, Especially Medicine
Dioscorides — De Materia Medica
Aulus Cornelius Celsus — De Medicina (Of Medicine, in Eight Books)
Paul of Aegina — The Seven Books of Paulus Ægineta (Books I–VII)
Avicenna — The Canon of Medicine (Book I)