There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
HIPPOCRATESThere is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
HIPPOCRATESFoolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
HIPPOCRATESEunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
HIPPOCRATESDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
HIPPOCRATESWhen in sickness, look to the spine first.
HIPPOCRATESTo really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESWhere prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESThe function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
HIPPOCRATESThe patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
HIPPOCRATESSome patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
HIPPOCRATESLeave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
HIPPOCRATESFirst of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
HIPPOCRATESMedicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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.
HIPPOCRATESMen think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
HIPPOCRATESI also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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