The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
HIPPOCRATESJust as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
HIPPOCRATESAnd he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
HIPPOCRATESThe forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
HIPPOCRATESWho could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
HIPPOCRATESTo really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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.
HIPPOCRATESThe function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
HIPPOCRATESScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESThe brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
HIPPOCRATESNature itself is the best physician.
HIPPOCRATESThe wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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.
HIPPOCRATESWhat medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATESWhoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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