…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.
HIPPOCRATESFoolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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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.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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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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Many admire, few know.
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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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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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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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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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