What a splendid
picture in Book III of the "Republic," of the day when ". . . our youth
will dwell in a land of health, amid fair sights and sounds and receive
the good in everything; and beauty, the effluence of fair works, shall
flow into the eye and ear like a health-giving breeze from a purer
region, and insensibly draw the soul from earliest years into likeness
and sympathy with the beauty of reason." The glory of this zeal for
the enrichment of this present life was revealed to the Greeks as to no
other people, but in respect to care for the body of the common man, we
have only seen its fulfilment in our own day, as a direct result of
the methods of research initiated by them. Everywhere throughout the
Hippocratic writings we find this attitude towards life, which has never
been better expressed than in the fine phrase, "Where there is love of
humanity there will be love of the profession." This is well brought
out in the qualifications laid down by Hippocrates for the study of
medicine. "Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine ought
to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition;
instruction; a favourable position for the study; early tuition; love of
labour; leisure.
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