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,
HIPPOCRATESThe 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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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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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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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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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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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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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