Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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The 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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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