| Title: | Empiric |
| Original Title: | Empirique |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 5 (1755), p. 586 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Nathan D. Brown [Furman University] |
| Subject terms: |
Medicine
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| URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0004.093 |
| Citation (MLA): | "Empiric." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Nathan D. Brown. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2021. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0004.093>. Trans. of "Empirique," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 5. Paris, 1755. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Empiric." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Nathan D. Brown. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0004.093 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Empirique," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 5:586 (Paris, 1755). |
Empiric. This term in its proper meaning, has always been applied to physicians who have based the rules of their profession on their practice, their experience, and not at all on the search for natural causes, the study of good works, and theory of the craft. See Empiric (Sect), and Empiricism.
But the word empiric is understood odiously in a figurative sense to mean a charlatan, and is applied to all those who treat illnesses with supposed secrets, without having any knowledge of medicine. See Charlatan.