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.
HIPPOCRATESIf 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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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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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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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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