The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
HIPPOCRATESAll excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Nature itself is the best physician.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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