Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESI also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
HIPPOCRATESAnyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
HIPPOCRATESMany admire, few know.
HIPPOCRATESEverything in excess is opposed to nature.
HIPPOCRATESEunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
HIPPOCRATESThe way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
HIPPOCRATESIf you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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.
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.
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.
HIPPOCRATESA physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
HIPPOCRATESIt is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
HIPPOCRATESAll disease starts in the gut.
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