The human soul develops up to the time of death.
HIPPOCRATESIt is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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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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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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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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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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