The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
HIPPOCRATESAnyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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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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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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