Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATESOf several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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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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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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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Life is short, the art long.
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