There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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