Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.
HIPPOCRATESThe physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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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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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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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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Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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