The physician should be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future - must explain the things experienced and things not experienced, and must communicate to the sick the things that are necessary.
— Hippocrates Ancient

Father of medicine

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Prognostic, Chapter 1

Date / Period

c. 400 BC

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32689/32689-h/32689-h.htm

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