I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
HIPPOCRATESI have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician treats, but nature heals.
HIPPOCRATESThe forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
HIPPOCRATESScience begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESI swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
HIPPOCRATESOld people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
HIPPOCRATESDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
HIPPOCRATESMen ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
HIPPOCRATESThe greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
HIPPOCRATESPrayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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.
HIPPOCRATESAnd he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
HIPPOCRATESOpposites are cures for opposites.
HIPPOCRATESEach of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
HIPPOCRATESAll disease starts in the gut.
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