Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
HIPPOCRATESA physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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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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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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