The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
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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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Walking is a man’s best medicine.
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Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.
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The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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All disease starts in the gut.
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If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.
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He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.
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There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Many admire, few know.
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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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