The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
HIPPOCRATESThe 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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