He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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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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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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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Positive health requires a knowledge of man’s primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known.
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The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
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Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.
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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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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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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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What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.
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