The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
HIPPOCRATESI also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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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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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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