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Physicians Quotes by Hippocrates
- The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
- Nature itself is the best physician.
- Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what…
- A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
- Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help…
- Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
- The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special…
- Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
- The physician treats, but nature heals.
- A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
- 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…
- Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for…
- Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
- The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
- In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient, and see whether…
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