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.
HIPPOCRATESThe 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.
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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.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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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.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Life is short, the art long.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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