The 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.
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.
HIPPOCRATESThat which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
HIPPOCRATESThe function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
HIPPOCRATESLeave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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.
HIPPOCRATESWalking is man’s best medicine.
HIPPOCRATESOur food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
HIPPOCRATESWar is the only proper school of the surgeon.
HIPPOCRATESTime is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
HIPPOCRATESWhen 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.
HIPPOCRATESWho could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
HIPPOCRATESExtreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HIPPOCRATESThe forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
HIPPOCRATESThere is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
HIPPOCRATESWhat medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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