Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
HIPPOCRATESAnd if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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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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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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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