Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
HIPPOCRATESA physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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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.
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Many admire, few know.
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Life is short, the art long.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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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