It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
HIPPOCRATESThe chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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