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.
HIPPOCRATESTimidity 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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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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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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