Life 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.
HIPPOCRATESThe forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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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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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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