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,
HIPPOCRATESPrayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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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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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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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.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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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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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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