Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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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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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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