Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
HIPPOCRATESLook well to the spine for the cause of disease.
HIPPOCRATESSome patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATESHealth is the greatest of human blessings.
HIPPOCRATESWhat I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
HIPPOCRATESOf several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
HIPPOCRATESLet food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
HIPPOCRATESPositive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
HIPPOCRATESHe who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
HIPPOCRATESOur food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATESThere are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESIt’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
HIPPOCRATESAn insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
HIPPOCRATESA sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
HIPPOCRATESNatural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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