What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
HIPPOCRATESHe who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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