There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESGet knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
More Hippocrates Quotes
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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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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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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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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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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