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.
HIPPOCRATESWhere prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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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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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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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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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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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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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 life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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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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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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