Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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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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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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