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.
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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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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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.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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