The prime object of the physician in the whole art of medicine should be to cure that which is diseased; and if this can be accomplished in various ways, the least troublesome should be selected; for this is more becoming a good man, and one well skilled in the art, who does not covet popular coin of base alloy.


In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 10), Hippocratic Writings

Hippocrates Quotes

The prime object of the physician in the whole art of medicine should be to cure that which is diseased; and if this can be accomplished in various...

The prime object of the physician in the whole art of medicine should be to cure that which is diseased; and if this can be accomplished in various...

The prime object of the physician in the whole art of medicine should be to cure that which is diseased; and if this can be accomplished in various...

The prime object of the physician in the whole art of medicine should be to cure that which is diseased; and if this can be accomplished in various...