Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESA physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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It 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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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 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.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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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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