We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
HIPPOCRATESWe must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
HIPPOCRATESIf someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
HIPPOCRATESWalking is a man’s best medicine.
HIPPOCRATESJust as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
HIPPOCRATESWar is the only proper school of the surgeon.
HIPPOCRATESThe natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
HIPPOCRATESFirst of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
HIPPOCRATESIt is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
HIPPOCRATESA physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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.
HIPPOCRATESOld people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
HIPPOCRATESWhat I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
HIPPOCRATESDivine is the task to relieve pain
HIPPOCRATESDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATESLife 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.
HIPPOCRATESThe 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.
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