The neo-Hippocratic theory as basis of contemporary medical thought and practice / by A.P. Cawadias.

  • Cawadias, A. P. (Alexander Panagioti), 1884-
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1928
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    fiJSL^OZOO THE NEO-HIPPOCRATIC THEORY AS BASIS OF CONTEMPORARY MEDICAL THOUGHT AND PRACTICE. La Theorie Neo-Hippocratique comme base de la pensee medicale contemporaire. Die Neo-Hippokratische Theorie als Grundlage fiir Denken und Wirken in der Medizin. By A. P. Cawadias, O.B.E., M.D., M.R.C.P., London. Formerly Chief of Medical Clinic Paris University, Beaujon Hospital; and Senior Physician and Lecturer for Clinical Medicine, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens. Very accurately a recent medical historian, Professor Castiglioni describes our contemporary period as the period of Neo-Hippocratism. In fact, we are abandon¬ ing the principles which directed our science during these last hundred years, the organic localisation of disease, Virchow’s cellular theory and the bacteriological causa - lismus,fora much wider and more comprehensive concep¬ tion derived from the doctrine of the ancient Greek physicians, and described as Neo-Humoralism or more accurately Neo-Hippocratism. This new theory which must dominate our conception of disease as well as of our technique of diagnosis and treatment, although not yet precisely formulated, may be considered as constituted by three principles, the vitalistic principle, the principle of biological correlation and integration, and the principle of pathological correlation and integration. The Vitalistic Principle. According to this principle the living being is distinctly differentiated from inanimate objects by its purposive striving, that is by the presence of a certain force— (f>u(rls of Hippocrates, entelechy of Aristotle, Vital Force of the late Hippocratists—which directs the living being towards the accomplishment of a definite purpose, which is to live, to develop and to immortalise itself by procrea¬ tion, a force which directs the evolution of the original