The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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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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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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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Sometimes give your services for nothing.
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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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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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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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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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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present behind all the arts.
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Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
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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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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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