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.
HIPPOCRATESWine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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