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Of all basic medical thoughts, prognosis is the one least cultivated by contemporary physicians. The passage from Greek medicine to modern medicine has indeed been interpreted as that from a healing art, cultivating prognosis as its major theme, to one emphasizing diagnosis with its manifold procedures designed by anatomical and physiological knowledge. In this respect it is significant that in contrast to the art of identifying diseases, that is, of diagnosis, the art of forecasting their outcomes rests today on the same principles as in Hippocratic medicine. "One must judge of children as of others, which will die and which recover, from the whole of symptoms . . ." we read in Prognostics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)