# Hippocrates — Discourses character guide

> Hippocrates in Discourses by Epictetus.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0004-i-of-the-things-which-are-in-our-power-and-not-in-our-power

## Who they are

Physician, used as an example of expertise in medicine.

## In the story

### [VIII: That the Faculties Are Not Safe to the Uninstructed](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/viii-that-the-faculties-are-not-safe-to-the-uninstructed)

Cited as a physician whose speech is not about being a physician, illustrating the mixing of accidental traits with essential ones.

### [How We Must Adapt Preconceptions to Particular Cases](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/xvii-how-we-must-adapt-preconceptions-to-particular-cases)

Mentioned to illustrate that even though everyone has a preconception of health, proper adaptation requires skill, as in medicine.

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