We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
HIPPOCRATESGet knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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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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The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Life is short, the art long.
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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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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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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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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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