Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
HIPPOCRATESOf several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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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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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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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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