Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
HIPPOCRATESWhat I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Many admire, few know.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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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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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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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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