Published 1943
“…It is necessary to go through some of the philosophical periods, even those of a purely speculative nature of ancient medicine, so despised by modern physicians, to make an incursion, even a brief one, into the field of
history, since, as Castiglioni says, no one can understand the present or
consciously look to the future, if he does not know the sources and does not know how to investigate the ways through which the knowledge of truth has penetrated us and, as Auguste Comte has affirmed, "no science can be understood without its own
history, always inseparable from the general
history of humanity". …”
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