Divine is the task to relieve pain
HIPPOCRATESScience is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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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.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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