Nature itself is the best physician.
HIPPOCRATESNature itself is the best physician.
HIPPOCRATESPrimum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
HIPPOCRATESThe dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
HIPPOCRATESHealing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
HIPPOCRATESSleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESWho could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
HIPPOCRATESWhoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
HIPPOCRATESCure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
HIPPOCRATESLeave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
HIPPOCRATESAn insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
HIPPOCRATESThere are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESLet your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
HIPPOCRATESThe greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
HIPPOCRATESTimidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
HIPPOCRATESIf for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
HIPPOCRATESIn all abundance there is lack.
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