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From Quotes by Hippocrates
- Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows,…
- The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
- Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
- And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
- All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
- From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
- About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by…
- Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses…
- Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing…
- Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows,…
- I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from…
- Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by…
- Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from…
- It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It…
- And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from…
- I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is…
- Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
- If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid…
- 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…
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