Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
HIPPOCRATESNatural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Life is short, the art long.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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