I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
HIPPOCRATESWar is the only proper school of the surgeon.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
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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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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Life is short, the art long.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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And 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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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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