The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
HIPPOCRATESHealth is the greatest of human blessings.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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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, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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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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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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