The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
HIPPOCRATESIt is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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It 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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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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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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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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