I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
HIPPOCRATESSport is a preserver of health.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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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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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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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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