…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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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Life is short, the art long.
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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