It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
HIPPOCRATESA physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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.
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Many admire, few know.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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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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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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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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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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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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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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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In all abundance there is lack.
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