Hippocrates

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."
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"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
"Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad."
Hippocrates Aphorisms
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."
Hippocrates
"As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm."
Hippocrates
"Life is short, the art long."
Hippocrates
"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
Hippocrates
"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."
Hippocrates
"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."
Hippocrates
"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."
Hippocrates
"A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician."
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"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."
Hippocrates
"Walking is man's best medicine."
Hippocrates
"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
Hippocrates
"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."
Hippocrates
"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance."
Hippocrates
"Everything in excess is opposed to nature."
Hippocrates
"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity."
Hippocrates
"Prayer indeed is good but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."
Hippocrates
"Wherever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm."
Hippocrates
"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
Hippocrates
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