Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HIPPOCRATESLife is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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When in sickness, look to the spine first.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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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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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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