About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
HIPPOCRATESInto 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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Many admire, few know.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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