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.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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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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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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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 human soul develops up to the time of death.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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