Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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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,
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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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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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