The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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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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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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 art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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