Divine is the task to relieve pain
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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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
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It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.
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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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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Rest as soon as there is pain.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.
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Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
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I swear… to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
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It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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