Rest as soon as there is pain.
HIPPOCRATES
HIPPOCRATES
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
HippocratesHippocrates I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
HippocratesHippocrates He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
HippocratesHippocrates 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.
HippocratesHippocrates Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
HippocratesHippocrates If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HippocratesHippocrates Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
HippocratesHippocrates The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
HippocratesHippocrates I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
HippocratesHippocrates When 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.
HippocratesHippocrates Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
HippocratesHippocrates The human soul develops up to the time of death.
HippocratesHippocrates Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
HippocratesHippocrates A 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.
HippocratesHippocrates What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HippocratesHippocrates We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Give yourself time to rest + heal + then rise.
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