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.
HIPPOCRATESThe 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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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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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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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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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He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.
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In all abundance there is lack.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?
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Sport is a preserver of health.
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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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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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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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