Empiric school of medicine

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The Empiric school of medicine was an ancient Greek and Roman medical tradition that emphasized practical experience and observed outcomes over theoretical explanations of disease.

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instanceOf Hellenistic medical tradition
Roman medical tradition
ancient medical school
medical philosophy
medical sect
basedOn empiricism
contemporaryWith Dogmatic school of medicine
Methodic school of medicine
corePrinciple focus on therapeutic effectiveness
reliance on experience rather than theory
suspension of judgment on hidden causes
countryOfOrigin Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity

Ancient Rome
linked to: Roman Antiquity
emphasizes observed outcomes
practical experience
era Hellenistic period
field Greek medicine
Roman medicine
ancient medicine
focusesOn symptom management
treatment outcomes
hasPhilosophicalAffinityWith Hellenistic empiricism
Pyrrhonian skepticism
historicalRegion Mediterranean Basin
influenced Sextus Empiricus
ancient medical skepticism
later Roman medicine
influencedBy Hippocratic medicine
language Ancient Greek
Latin
mainInterest medicine
methodologicalPrinciple consultation of written case collections
reliance on memory of past cases
use of analogy between similar cases
use of experience (empeiria)
opposes dogmatic speculation
rationalist medicine
theoretical explanations of disease
practicedBy Greek physicians
Roman physicians
rejects causal theories not grounded in observation
speculation about hidden bodily structures
timePeriod 3rd century BCE and later
uses analogy from previous cases
case histories
clinical observation
experience of other physicians

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Sextus Empiricus medicalAffiliation Empiric school of medicine
Hellenistic medicine associatedWithSchool Empiric school of medicine
Hellenistic medicine associatedWithSchool Methodic school of medicine
linked to: Empiric school of medicine
Dogmatic school of medicine opposedBy Empiric school of medicine
Dogmatic school of medicine contrastedWith Empiric school of medicine