All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
HIPPOCRATESThe 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 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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Many admire, few know.
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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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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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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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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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