Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
HIPPOCRATESAnd if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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Life is short, the art long.
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