The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
HIPPOCRATESThere are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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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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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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