There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
HIPPOCRATESHealing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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