Divine is the task to relieve pain
HIPPOCRATESDivine is the task to relieve pain
HIPPOCRATESI will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
HIPPOCRATESTimidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
HIPPOCRATESEveryone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
HIPPOCRATESAll excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
HIPPOCRATESIn all abundance there is lack.
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.
HIPPOCRATESI will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
HIPPOCRATESThe function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
HIPPOCRATESWar is the only proper school of the surgeon.
HIPPOCRATESThe patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
HIPPOCRATESOur food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATESAnd 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.
HIPPOCRATESWhere there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
HIPPOCRATESHe who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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