I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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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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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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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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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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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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