Note 540 — ON REGIMEN IN ACUTE DISEASES.
Francis Adams translation
It is curious to remark that a double charge was founded against our author on the ground of his treatment of febrile cases, as here laid down. The followers of Thessalus held that he gorged his patients with too much food, whereas Erasistratus and his followers held that he starved them. Galen, on the other hand, contends that the practice of Hippocrates is the juste milieu between these two extremes. (Opera, tom. v., p. 47; ed. Basil.)