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.
HIPPOCRATESFat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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