Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
HIPPOCRATESIt 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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Life is short, the art long.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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I 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.
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