Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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 patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Primum non nocerum. (First 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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