4 MODERN BIOLOGIC THERAPEUSIS 



the arduous labor of a few devoted workers in 

 science. 



GREEK MEDICINE 



European medicine begins properly in the 

 Age of Pericles and its scientific advancement 

 centers in the figure of Hippocrates (460-370 

 B.C.) who gave to Greek medicine its scientific 

 spirit and its ethical ideals. The eminence of 

 Hippocrates is three-fold: he disassociated 

 medicine from theurgy and philosophy; crys- 

 tallized the loose knowledge into systematic 

 science, and gave physicians the highest moral 

 inspiration they had. Instead of attributing 

 disease to the gods or their fantastic imagina- 

 tions, Hippocrates virtually founded the bed- 

 side method which was afterwards employed 

 with such signal ability by Sydenham, Laennec, 

 Bright, Addison, Duchanne and Charrot. 



It is the method of Hippocrates, the use of 

 the mind and senses as diagnostic instruments, 

 together with his transparent honesty and his 

 elevated conception of the dignity of the phy- 

 sician, his high seriousness and deep respect for 

 his patients, that make him by common consent 

 the "Father of Medicine" and the greatest of 



