The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HIPPOCRATESIt 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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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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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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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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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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