Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
HIPPOCRATESThe forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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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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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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