The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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