I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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 wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.
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