Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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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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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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