Hippocratic Prognosis

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Hippocrates turned the healer from a reader of omens into a reader of the body: the 'sacred disease', epilepsy, he declared no more sacred than any other, having a natural cause; and he taught physicians the art of prognosis, to follow an illness and foretell its critical days. Disease became a natural course to be predicted, not a god's arrow to be appeased. — history of medicine