Key passage(s)
Translation
“… full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point; but anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been, the victim of deception.”
Translation by Eleni Tsiompanou
Whole article
Link to the full article available in the Wellcome collection
Portrait(s)
Acknowledgements
The editors are grateful to:
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Wellcome Trust for making available the portraits of Hippocrates (460 BC-377 BC).