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.
HIPPOCRATESWhenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Many admire, few know.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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