It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
HIPPOCRATESNature itself is the best physician.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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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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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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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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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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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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