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.
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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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All disease starts in the gut.
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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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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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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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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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