Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
HIPPOCRATESAnd if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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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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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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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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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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