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.
HIPPOCRATESWalking is a man’s best medicine.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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Where there is love of medicine, there is love of humankind.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Primum non nocerum. (First do no harm)
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Idleness and lack of occupation tend – nay are dragged – towards evil.
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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.
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It is better to be full of drink than full of food.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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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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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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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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It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.
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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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