We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
HIPPOCRATESPrayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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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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