Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
HIPPOCRATESIt is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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