A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
HIPPOCRATESSome patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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