I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
HIPPOCRATESA physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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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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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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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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