I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
HIPPOCRATES…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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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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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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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