Aphorisms

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Author: Hippocrates ISBN: 9781465528131
Publisher: Library of Alexandria Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Hippocrates
ISBN: 9781465528131
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English
Life is short, and Art long; The crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make The patient, The attendants, and externals cooperate. in disorders of The bowels and vomitings, occurring spontaneously, if The matters purged be such as ought to be purged, They do good, and are well borne; but if not, The contrary. and so artificial evacuations, if They consist of such matters as should be evacuated, do good, and are well borne; but if not, The contrary. One, Then, ought to look to The country, The season, The age, and The diseases in which They are proper or not. in The athletae, embonpoint, if carried to its utmost limit, is dangerous, for They cannot remain in The same state nor be stationary; and since, Then, They can neiTher remain stationary nor improve, it only remains for Them to get worse; for These reasons The embonpoint should be reduced without delay, that The body may again have a commencement of reparation. NeiTher should The evacuations, in Their case, be carried to an extreme, for this also is dangerous, but only to such a point as The person’s constitution can endure. in like manner, medicinal evacuations, if carried to an extreme, are dangerous; and again, a restorative course, if in The extreme, is dangerous.
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Life is short, and Art long; The crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make The patient, The attendants, and externals cooperate. in disorders of The bowels and vomitings, occurring spontaneously, if The matters purged be such as ought to be purged, They do good, and are well borne; but if not, The contrary. and so artificial evacuations, if They consist of such matters as should be evacuated, do good, and are well borne; but if not, The contrary. One, Then, ought to look to The country, The season, The age, and The diseases in which They are proper or not. in The athletae, embonpoint, if carried to its utmost limit, is dangerous, for They cannot remain in The same state nor be stationary; and since, Then, They can neiTher remain stationary nor improve, it only remains for Them to get worse; for These reasons The embonpoint should be reduced without delay, that The body may again have a commencement of reparation. NeiTher should The evacuations, in Their case, be carried to an extreme, for this also is dangerous, but only to such a point as The person’s constitution can endure. in like manner, medicinal evacuations, if carried to an extreme, are dangerous; and again, a restorative course, if in The extreme, is dangerous.

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