Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
HIPPOCRATESI will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Nature itself is the best physician.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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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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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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