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.
HIPPOCRATESDeclare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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