The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
HIPPOCRATESLife 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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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
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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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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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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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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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