The physician treats, but nature heals.
HIPPOCRATESNatural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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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 human soul develops up to the time of death.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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