Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
HIPPOCRATESThe patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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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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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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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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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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