He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
HIPPOCRATESEunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Many admire, few know.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Walking is man’s best medicine.
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And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.
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The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.
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