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.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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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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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.
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Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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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.
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
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And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
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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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