There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESThere are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESHe who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
HIPPOCRATES…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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.
HIPPOCRATESIn all abundance there is lack.
HIPPOCRATESIt is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
HIPPOCRATESIt is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
HIPPOCRATESIf we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
HIPPOCRATESExtreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HIPPOCRATESA physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
HIPPOCRATESI also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
HIPPOCRATESWalking is a man’s best medicine.
HIPPOCRATESWherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
HIPPOCRATESAn insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
HIPPOCRATESMen 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. …
HIPPOCRATESThose diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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