Both Uses of
Hippocrates
in
Don Quixote
- "Because," replied the doctor, "our master Hippocrates, the polestar and beacon of medicine, says in one of his aphorisms omnis saturatio mala, perdicis autem pessima, which means 'all repletion is bad, but that of partridge is the worst of all."†
Chpt 2.47-48Hippocrates = medical practitioner regarded as the father of medicine (circa 460-377 BC)
- At last Doctor Pedro Recio Agilers of Tirteafuera promised to let him have supper that night though it might be in contravention of all the aphorisms of Hippocrates.†
Chpt 2.49-50 *
Definition:
medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC)