Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
HIPPOCRATESDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
HIPPOCRATESLook to the seasons when choosing your cures
HIPPOCRATESWhen doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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.
HIPPOCRATESExtreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HIPPOCRATESHe who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
HIPPOCRATESThings that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
HIPPOCRATESI will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
HIPPOCRATESLet your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
HIPPOCRATESAbout 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.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
HIPPOCRATESAll disease starts in the gut.
HIPPOCRATESThe 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.
HIPPOCRATESAll excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
HIPPOCRATESPhysicians are many in title but very few in reality.
HIPPOCRATESPrimum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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