I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
HIPPOCRATESExtreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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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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