...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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, experience fallacious and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...work, becomes more and more impressed with the teachings of Hippocrates, the father of. medicine, that "Life is short, and the Art long; the Occasion fleeting; Experience fallacious, and Judgment difficult," which teaches him the limitations of the human mind ; that the human mind is fallible and that we cannot...

...upon the slight foundation of personal observation, apparently overlooking the Hippocratic aphorism, "Life is short, and the art long; the occasion fleeting...; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult." Some light may, possibly, be afforded in the study of what was designated by Trousseau as "so vast...