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.
HIPPOCRATESWhenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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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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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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