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单词 rational physic
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rational physic
a. Designating, belonging to, or characteristic of a school of medicine originating in ancient Greece in which treatments and explanations of disease were based on deduction from theoretical principles; frequently in rational physic, rational physician. Opposed to empirical. Now historical.
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rational?1541
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Eiijv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Seynge that none Emperyke, nor racyonall [Fr. nul Empirique, ne rational] hath so wryten before.
1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. lxxxii. f.140 v Serapion confessed that this Rational Phisicke belonged not to the Arte of healinge maladies.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. ii. 127 An Empiricke many times, and a silly Chirurgeon, doth more strange cures then a rationall Physition.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 123 [They] are ready enough to slander the rationall Physitian.
1677 J. Webster Displaying Supposed Witchcraft xvii. 323 It hath sometimes been a question, Whether a rational Physician in the curing of melancholy persons, or others in some odd diseases, ought to grant the use of Characters or Charms, and such ridiculous administrations?
1717 F. Bellinger Tractatus de Fœtu Nutrito iv. 11 The great Hippocrates, the Master and Founder of rational Physick.
1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Physician The ancients distinguished their physicians into various classes, or sects:—As, Rational Physicians, [etc.].
1775 tr. D. Cotugno Treat. Nerv. Sciatica p. xvii If all those who commence Students in rational Physic, would diligently endeavour to obtain a knowledge of the fabric of the human body..we should not be so often at a loss for that right rule of practice which they boast of having obtained.
1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. iv. i. 250 That medical sect which was termed the empirical, in contradistinction to the rational and methodical sects.
1846 Lancet 16 May 552/1 In the treatment of the disease our author belongs to the rational school. He believes in no specific remedy able at once to control the disease.
1973 M. E. Bailey Nursing & Social Change i. 8 The rational schools had many disciples, but three men stand out [sc. Hippocrates, Aristotle, and Galen].
1993 A. Wear in A. Wear et al. Doctors & Ethics iv. 106 The arrogant, yet whining, complaint that the patients did not automatically realize that rational, learned medicine was best permeates the writings of the rational physicians.
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