Many admire, few know.
HIPPOCRATESTo do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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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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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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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.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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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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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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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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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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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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