Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
HIPPOCRATESWar is the only proper school of the surgeon.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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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.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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