It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
HIPPOCRATESMedicine 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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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