Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
HIPPOCRATESWe must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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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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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing 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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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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