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.
HIPPOCRATESFirst 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.
HIPPOCRATESOur food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATESLook to the seasons when choosing your cures
HIPPOCRATESFor where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
HIPPOCRATESWhere there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
HIPPOCRATESA sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
HIPPOCRATESExtreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HIPPOCRATESInto whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
HIPPOCRATESGet knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
HIPPOCRATESThe wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
HIPPOCRATESI swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
HIPPOCRATESAll parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
HIPPOCRATESPrayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATESWho could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
HIPPOCRATESWhenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
HIPPOCRATESScience begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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