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.
HIPPOCRATESWar is the only proper school of the surgeon.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.
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Health is the greatest of human blessings.
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Many admire, few know.
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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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Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath…. Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.
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Your foods shall be your ‘remedies,’ and your ‘remedies’ shall be your foods.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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