Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
HIPPOCRATESIdleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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