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.
HIPPOCRATESLook to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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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.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Life is short, the art long.
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