The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
HIPPOCRATESI have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
HIPPOCRATESAnd he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
HIPPOCRATESIt is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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.
HIPPOCRATESPrayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATESIn all abundance there is lack.
HIPPOCRATESThings that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
HIPPOCRATESI will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
HIPPOCRATESThe 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.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, the art long.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
HIPPOCRATESMake a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATESFrom nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
HIPPOCRATESLet food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
HIPPOCRATESThe art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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