Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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And 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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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