He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
HIPPOCRATESMen ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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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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All disease begins in the gut.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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