To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
HIPPOCRATESA 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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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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.
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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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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