There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESFor where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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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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