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εὖ δὲ χρὴ τοῦτο εἰδέναι, ὅτι τισὶ τὰ ῥυφήματα ἐν τῇσι νούσοισιν οὐ συμφέρει, ἀλλ᾽ ἄντικρυς, ὅταν ταῦτα προσαίρωνται, παροξύνονταί σφισι οἵ τε πυρετοὶ καὶ τὰ ἀλγήματα: καὶ δῆλον τὸ προσενεχθὲν τῇ μὲν νούσῳ τροφή τε καὶ αὔξησις γενόμενον, τῷ δὲ σώματι φθίσις τε καὶ ἀρρωστίη. ὅσοι δὲ ἂν τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ διαθέσει ἐόντες προσενέγκωνται ξηρὸν σιτίον ἢ μᾶζαν ἢ ἄρτον, καὶ ἢν πάνυ σμικρόν, [10] δεκαπλασίως ἂν μᾶλλον καὶ ἐπιφανέστερον κακωθεῖεν ἢ ῥυφέοντες, δι᾽ οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ διὰ τὴν ἰσχὺν τοῦ βρώματος πρὸς τὴν διάθεσιν: καὶ ὅτῳ ῥυφεῖν μὲν συμφέρει, ἐσθίειν δ᾽ οὔ, εἰ πλείω φάγοι, πολὺ ἂν μᾶλλον κακωθείη, ἢ εἰ ὀλίγα: καὶ εἰ ὀλίγα δέ, πονήσειεν ἄν. πάντα δὴ τὰ αἴτια τοῦ πόνου ἐς τὸ αὐτὸ ἀνάγεται, τὰ ἰσχυρότατα μάλιστά τε καὶ ἐπιφανέστατα λυμαίνεσθαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον καὶ [18] τὸν ὑγιᾶ ἐόντα καὶ τὸν κάμνοντα.
Hippocrates Collected Works I. Hippocrates. W. H. S. Jones. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1868.
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