Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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