That which is used – develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.
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War is the only proper school of the surgeon.
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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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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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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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