The Complete Works of Claudius Galen, Vol. 18 Pt. 2

For by foreknowing and proclaiming to the sick their present, past, and future conditions, and by relating those things which the patients leave out, he would be more believed to understand the circumstances of the sick; so that men would dare to entrust themselves to the physician.

He establishes the first of the chapters in this discourse, asserting that men dare to entrust themselves to the physician because of the success of his prediction. For from this follows the belief that the physician understands precisely all the circumstances of the sick—that is, what the constitution of the disease affecting them might be—so that the continuity of the demonstration is accomplished in this way: The physician, by the things he predicts, is believed to understand the nature of the disease. He who is believed to understand the nature of the disease has patients who are more obedient. He who has patients who are more obedient heals diseases more effectively. "And relating those things which the patients leave out." He leaves out—

For by foreknowing and proclaiming to the sick both their present, past, and future conditions, and by explaining those things which the sick omit, he will surely be believed to know the affairs of the sick, so much so that men dare to commit themselves to the physician.

He establishes the first reason in this place, saying that men dare more readily to entrust themselves to the physician on account of the certainty of his prediction. For on that account, the physician is thought to know with precision all the affairs of the sick, that is, what is the nature of the disease by which they are held. The structure of the demonstration is of this kind: The physician, from the things he predicts, wins for himself this trust, that he is seen to have known the nature of the disease. He about whom such an opinion has been conceived has more compliant patients. He whom the sick obey more readily cures diseases more easily. And he explains those things which they omit. Pre-