Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
HIPPOCRATESI 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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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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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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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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