Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
HIPPOCRATESEverything in excess is opposed to nature.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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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.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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