The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATESThere are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician treats, but nature heals.
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.
HIPPOCRATESYour foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
HIPPOCRATESThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HIPPOCRATESAll diseases begin in the gut.
HIPPOCRATESThere are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESHealth is the greatest of human blessings.
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.
HIPPOCRATESMany admire, few know.
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.
HIPPOCRATESWhen in sickness, look to the spine first.
HIPPOCRATESOur food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATESPrimum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
HIPPOCRATESIf someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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