Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
HIPPOCRATESWhere prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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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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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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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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…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.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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