On the Sects of Physicians

...clearly The text continues the argument for Dogmatic medicine, an art of this kind is both divinely received and divinely practiced. And just as the soul comes from God, the body depends on the soul; do not the Hebrews maintain that the Archangel Raphael original: "Raphaelem Archangelum" — his name in Hebrew means "God Heals" exercised the work of this art? Therefore, kings in former times did not at all disdain to contemplate and practice this most noble art. However, the origin of Dogmatic medicine The Dogmatic or "Rationalist" school sought to find the hidden causes of diseases through reason and a study of nature, rather than relying on experience alone, whether you follow the Hebrews, or the Greeks and Egyptian theologians, flowed from divinity itself. For the Hebrews assert that Adam, the first parent of the human race, attained this wisdom through divine light.

According to the Egyptians, Apis, the King of the Egyptians, discovered it. The Greeks, however, handed down the tradition that Apollo received that power for the salvation of the human race from Jove Jupiter, the father of men and gods; Apollo then revealed it to Aesculapius The Greek god of medicine. Those who followed them are found to be almost innumerable and are so well known among our people that they require no longer narrative.

They say that Herophilus An Alexandrian physician known as the father of anatomy and Philip Likely Philip of Cos, an early Empiricist were followers of Empiricism original: "Empirices" — a medical sect that relied solely on observation and experience, rejecting theoretical causes, that is, the school of experience. Likewise, Archigenes and Themison were partly Empiricists and partly Methodists The Methodist school focused on "the way" or "method" of treating common states of the body, such as "tenseness" or "laxness," seeking a middle ground between theory and experience; concerning whom, I believe, the Satirist Likely referring to the Roman poet Juvenal, known for his biting critiques of contemporary life, including incompetent doctors felt...