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 this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavoryโฆ. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail usโฆ.All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthyโฆ.In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.
HippocratesThe physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future โ must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
HippocratesThe art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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