Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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 physician treats, but nature heals.
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Many admire, few know.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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