If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
HIPPOCRATESLook to the seasons when choosing your cures
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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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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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Many admire, few know.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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