Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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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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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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