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.
HIPPOCRATESDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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It 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.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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