because disease is not a thing but a process.

因为疾病不是一样东西而是一个过程
This was a medicine that was rather

这种医术比较
indifferent to diagnosis or classification.

不在乎诊断和分类
What it stressed instead was the answer to

相反的强调的是回答
the patient's eternal question,

病人无穷的问题
"Am I going to be all right doc?"

"医生我能不能康复吗"
Prognosis was what really mattered to the Hippocratic physician.

而预诊对于希波克拉底派的医师十分重要
The therapeutic principle was that opposites treat opposites.

治疗原则是用相反的东西来治疗
So, if you have an excess of a dry and cold humor,

所以如果你有过量的又干又冷的体液
like a black bile,

比如黑胆汁
if that's the humor that's causing your illness,

如果这是导致你生病的体液
then you would like perhaps to give the patient

那你大概要给病人