He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
HIPPOCRATESWine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
More Hippocrates Quotes
-
-
Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
HIPPOCRATES -
Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATES -
Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
HIPPOCRATES -
Whoever 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.
HIPPOCRATES -
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
HIPPOCRATES -
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATES -
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATES -
A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
HIPPOCRATES -
It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
HIPPOCRATES -
Timidity 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.
HIPPOCRATES -
It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
HIPPOCRATES -
The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
HIPPOCRATES -
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
HIPPOCRATES -
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
HIPPOCRATES -
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.
HIPPOCRATES