# Bailey’s 1926 remains print the four-fold remedy as a substitute for temple medicine

Date: 1926

## The fact

Cyril Bailey’s 1926 Oxford Epicurus: The Extant Remains prints the tetrapharmakos cluster (gods, death, good, bad) as portable therapy. The dated book is Oxford’s. Treating a four-line charm as enough medicine can delay institutional care when pain is bodily.

## Context

Consolation for fear of death is not a hospital. Later popular handbooks sold the charm as self-help. Split genuine mental-consolation gain onto the Menoeceus row.

[Epicurus](/people/epicurus) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official edition, museum, archive, or agency page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Bailey, Epicurus: The Extant Remains (1926) — HathiTrust record (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000365211; HathiTrust / Clarendon Press).

## Significance

A four-line remedy is not a clinic roster. Over-claiming it weakens health-system demand for shared care.

A four-line remedy is not a clinic roster. Over-claiming it weakens health-system demand for shared care.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Epicurus: https://factrail.ai/people/epicurus

## Drivers

- Infectious-Disease Transmission: https://factrail.ai/drivers/infectious-disease-transmission

## Sources

- https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000365211
- https://archive.org/details/livesofeminentph02dioguoft

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-tetrapharmakos-as-clinic