Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATESAll disease begins in the gut.
More Hippocrates Quotes
-
-
Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
HIPPOCRATES -
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATES -
Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
HIPPOCRATES -
Sport is a preserver of health.
HIPPOCRATES -
The human soul develops up to the time of death.
HIPPOCRATES -
Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
HIPPOCRATES -
Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
HIPPOCRATES -
All disease begins in the gut.
HIPPOCRATES -
Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
HIPPOCRATES -
…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
HIPPOCRATES -
If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
HIPPOCRATES -
And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
HIPPOCRATES -
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
HIPPOCRATES -
The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
HIPPOCRATES -
That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
HIPPOCRATES