Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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And 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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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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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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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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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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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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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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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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