 | 1850 - 592 sider
...Hippocrates has been cordially re-echoed for two thousand years by every true medical practitioner. " Life is short, and the art long ; the occasion fleeting...; experience fallacious ; and judgment difficult." Why should the philosophical physician rely on unassisted and uncorrected experience, when every day... | |
 | 1850 - 586 sider
...Hippocrates has been cordially re-echoed for two thousand years by every true medical practitioner. " Life is short, and the art long ; the occasion fleeting...; experience fallacious; and judgment difficult." Why should the philosophicnl physician rely on unassisted and uncorrected experience, when every day... | |
 | 1851 - 604 sider
...experience. Successive ages have only confirmed more and more the wisdom of the Hippocratic aphorism — " Life is short, and the art long ; the occasion fleeting, experience fallacious, and judgment difficult." Yet Dr. Gregory would lay the foundations of a new science, transcending in its supposed relations... | |
 | William Sharp - 1853 - 286 sider
...Father of Medicine in his first Aphorism : " 'OB;of fipa.%v(, n It o 6e xa/>«f o£tf, w Jt we/ n Jt " Life is short, and the Art long ; the occasion fleeting...; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult." They were no doubt present to the mind of the son Sirach when he said, " Honour the Physician with... | |
 | Alonzo Benjamin Palmer, Edmund Andrews, Zina Pitcher - 1858 - 76 sider
...patient must combat the disease along with the physician." Then in his first aphorism, B. 1, he says: "Life is short and the art long, the occasion fleeting,...patient, the attendants and externals co-operate." We think these rules prove Hippocrates a reflective and practical philosopher. In his book on prognostics... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - 912 sider
...sion, but rich in sentiment. The first aphorism of Hippocrates is, " Life is short, and the art is long ; the occasion fleeting ; experience fallacious,...the attendants, and externals, co-operate." " The first and most ancient inquirers into truth were wont to throw their knowledge into aphorisms, or short,... | |
 | 1864 - 690 sider
...medicine written up in every doctor's office throughout the land, as a caution and an admonition: — "Life is short, and the art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult." Words of wisdom, true in the days of Hippocrates, and only proved more true by every century that has... | |
 | Massachusetts Medical Society - 1866 - 670 sider
...blazoning them abroad. What Hippocrates announced more than two thousand years ago, is still true, " Life is short, and the art long, the occasion fleeting, experience fallacious, and judgment difficult." What Lord Bacon says of idols of the tribe and idols of the den, idols of the forum and idols of the... | |
 | George Cheyne Shattuck - 1866 - 42 sider
...blazoning them abroad. What Hippocrates announced more than two thousand years ago, is still true, " Life is short, and the art long, the occasion fleeting, experience fallacious, and judgment diflicult." What Lord Bacon says of idols of the tribe and idols of the den, idols of the forum and... | |
 | Cornelius Conway Felton - 1867 - 534 sider
...is fleeting, experiment fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must be prepared not only to do what is right himself, but also to make the...patient, the attendants, and externals co-operate." " Old persons endure fasting most easily ; next, adults ; young persons, not nearly so well ; least... | |
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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 is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate. 
