At 0:17 7/09/96, Gerard Freriks is rumored to have typed:
> At 22:30 on 6/9/96, Andrew Oakford wrote:
>
> > >ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS happens to be the motto of Sheffield University
>Medical
> > >School, from which I qualified. For those who have not come across it,
>it is
> > >a quotation from a very early medic (?greek) and means something along the
> > >lines of the art is long but life is short, i.e. you'll always learn
> > >something new.
> >
> > Hippocrates, the first line of the first Aphorism
>
>
> No kidding!
>
> Do you have the greek-version of it?
> (if you can print it?)
I own a french edition of Hippocrates' aphorisms, translated from greek by
Lazare Meyssonnier, edited in 1684 (finished printing on august 5, 1684),
following by the "keys of the aphorisms" and some other texts.
L. Meyssonnier was the counsellor and the physician of the King Louis the
XVIth, doctor of the University of Montpellier, and professor at the
College of Medicine in Lyon.
The first aphorism is (I think commentaries are in brackets):
"The life is brief and the art is long (to learn), the occasion is
punctual. The experience hard; the judgement difficult. And it's not only
necessary (that the physician) sets himself in a fit state to do what he
has to do on his part: but also he must the patient to set in, with those
who are presents [...] for the cure of the illness." (translated from old
french...)
There are 8 sections:
section 1: 25 aphorisms
section 2: 54
section 3: 31
section 4: 83
section 5: 82
section 6: 60
section 7: 79
section 8: 18
Hope that helps.
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