Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
HIPPOCRATESThe 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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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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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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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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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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The brain of man, like that of all animals is double, being parted down its centre by a thin membrane. For this reason pain is not always felt in the same part of the head, but sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, and occasionally all over.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
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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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