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.
HIPPOCRATESThe life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Life is short, the art long.
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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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