Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
HIPPOCRATESWhen in sickness, look to the spine first.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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All disease starts 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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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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