ἢν γὰρ παρῇ φιλανθρωπίη,

 πάρεστι καὶ φιλοτεχνίη.

For where there is love of humankind
            (philanthropia),

        there is also love of  The Art
              (philotechnia)

FOR some patients, although aware that their condition is dangerous, return to health through their contentment with the physician's kindness.

Ενιοι γὰρ νοσέοντες ᾐσθημένοι τὸ περὶ ἑωυτοὺς πάθος μὴ ἐὸν ἐν ἀσφαλείῃ, καὶ τῇ τοῦ ἰητροῦ ἐπιεικείῃ εὐδοκέοντες, μεταλλάσσονται ἐς ὑγιείην.̈

Articella, Oxford, 13th c. DeRicci NLM [78].) fol 32r

Hippocrates teaches Galen, medieval MS illum.

from THE EPIDEMICS
of HIPPOCRATES 1.2.5

De morbis popularibus († Epidemiae), ed. by É. Littré Oeuvres Completes d’Hippocrate, vol. 2 (Paris: Baillie 1840 repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert 1961). TLG canon 627.6. tr. L. Dysinger, OSB

Λέγειν τὰ προγενόμενα·

  γιγνώσκειν τὰ παρεόντα·

     προλέγειν τὰ ἐσόμενα·

μελετᾷν ταῦτα·

DECLARE [the patient's] past

DIAGNOSE [know] the [patient's] present

PROGNOSE [foretell] the future

Meditate on [practice] these things.

ἀσκέειν, περὶ τὰ νουσήματα, δύο,

In regard to disease strive f

or two things:

ὠφελέειν,

ἢ μὴ βλάπτειν.

(1) To HELP;

(2) or at least to DO NO HARM.

τὸ νούσημα, ὁ νοσέων, καὶ ὁ ἰητρός·

The Art is threefold:

The patient, the disease, and the physician

ὑπεναντιοῦσθαι τῷ νουσήματι τὸν νοσεῦντα μετὰ τοῦ ἰητροῦ χρή.

The physician is the servant of the art,

and the patient must cooperate with the physician in battling the disease.

Εἷς ἰατρός ἐστιν, σαρκικός τε καὶ πνευματικός, γεννητὸς καὶ ἀγέννητος, ἐν σαρκὶ γενόμενος θεός, ἐν θανάτῳ ζωὴ ἀληθινή, καὶ ἐκ Μαρίας καὶ ἐκ θεοῦ, πρῶτον παθητὸς καὶ τότε ἀπαθής,Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν

ONE physician there is, both fleshly and spiritual, begotten and unbegotten, God become flesh, true life in death, both from Mary and from God; first subject to suffering then not subject to suffering - Jesus Christ our Lord.

Χριστιανὸς [|] καλεῖ, ἵν' αὐτῶν καταδήσῃ ̧ τὰ τραύματα ς τῷ λόγῳ καὶ ἐπιχέῃ τῇ φλεγμαινούσῃ ἐν κακοῖς ψυχῇ τὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ λόγου φάρμακα, ἀνάλογον οἴνῳ καὶ ἐλαίῳ καὶ μαλάγματι καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς ἀπὸ ἰατρικῆς ψυχῆς βοηθήμασιν

THE Christian […] calls [sinners] in order to bind up their ‘wounds’ with the Word and apply to [their] soul, festering in vices, drugs [taken] from the Word, analogous to wine and oil and emollients and the rest of the soul’s medicinal remedies

ἡ ἰατρικὴ τέχνη εἰς τύπον τῆς κατὰ ψυχὴν θεραπείας τὴν ἀπόθεσιν τοῦ περισσοῦ, καὶ τὴν τοῦ λείποντος πρόσθεσιν ὑποτιθεμένη ὑπὸ τοῦ πᾶσαν ἡμῖν τὴν ζωὴν οἰκονομοῦντος Θεοῦ συγκεχώρηται

THE ART of medicine [has been granted us] as a pattern for the healing of the soul, to guide us in the removal of excess and in the augmentation of what is deficient: it has been granted us by the God who directs our whole life.