Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
HIPPOCRATESWhoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
HIPPOCRATESAll disease starts in the gut.
HIPPOCRATESIt is better to be full of drink than full of food.
HIPPOCRATESTimidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
HIPPOCRATESWhat I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
HIPPOCRATESTime is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
HIPPOCRATESPositive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
HIPPOCRATESJust as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
HIPPOCRATESWhere prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESFor where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
HIPPOCRATESIt is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
HIPPOCRATESThe dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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.
HIPPOCRATESLet food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
HIPPOCRATESIllnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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