Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
HIPPOCRATESThe physician treats, but nature heals.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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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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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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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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