Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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More Hippocrates Quotes
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Illnesses 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.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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