Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
HIPPOCRATESFoolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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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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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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