The dignity of a physician requires that he should look healthy, and as plump as nature intended him to be; for the common crowd consider those who are not of this excellent bodily condition to be unable to take care of themselves.
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More Hippocrates Quotes
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In all abundance there is lack.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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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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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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 someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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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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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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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 natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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