Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
HIPPOCRATESA physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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If 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.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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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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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