Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESWhen 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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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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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 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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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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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