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.
HIPPOCRATESHealing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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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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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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