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.
HIPPOCRATESI swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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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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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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