Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
HIPPOCRATESWhere there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
HIPPOCRATESIt’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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.
HIPPOCRATESThe wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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.
HIPPOCRATESI also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
HIPPOCRATESMen think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
HIPPOCRATESIdleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
HIPPOCRATESThat which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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.
HIPPOCRATESLook to the seasons when choosing your cures
HIPPOCRATESNature itself is the best physician.
HIPPOCRATESMale and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
HIPPOCRATESWherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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