The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATESIllnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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