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.
HIPPOCRATESI 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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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 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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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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