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.
HIPPOCRATESThere are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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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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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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A sensible man ought to think about that well being is the best of human blessings, and find out how by his personal thought to derive profit from his sicknesses.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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The 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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Each of the substances of a man’s diet acts upon his body and changes it in some way and upon these changes his whole life depends.
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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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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.
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