The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
HIPPOCRATESFat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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 dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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