Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
HIPPOCRATESLook to the seasons when choosing your cures
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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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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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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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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And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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