The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
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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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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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