Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
HIPPOCRATESDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Many admire, few know.
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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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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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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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