Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
HIPPOCRATESDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
HIPPOCRATESTo really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESAn insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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.
HIPPOCRATESHealing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
HIPPOCRATESTo do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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.
HIPPOCRATESThere are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESDivine is the task to relieve pain
HIPPOCRATESWhenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
HIPPOCRATESLeave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
HIPPOCRATESPrayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATESIf you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HIPPOCRATESPhysicians are many in title but very few in reality.
HIPPOCRATESWherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
HIPPOCRATESMale and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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