First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.
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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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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Sport is a preserver of health.
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About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
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Many admire, few know.
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
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Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.
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Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
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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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Opposites are cures for opposites.
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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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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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