Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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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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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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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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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.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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