Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATESA physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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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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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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