I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
HIPPOCRATESIt is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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