All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
HIPPOCRATESWar is the only proper school of the surgeon.
More Hippocrates Quotes
-
-
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
HIPPOCRATES -
And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
HIPPOCRATES -
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATES -
Medicine 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.
HIPPOCRATES -
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
HIPPOCRATES -
For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
HIPPOCRATES -
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
HIPPOCRATES -
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
HIPPOCRATES -
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
HIPPOCRATES -
The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
HIPPOCRATES -
Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
HIPPOCRATES -
First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
HIPPOCRATES -
About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
HIPPOCRATES -
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.
HIPPOCRATES -
The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
HIPPOCRATES