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.
HIPPOCRATESWalking is a man’s best medicine.
More Hippocrates Quotes
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Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.
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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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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain
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Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
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Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession,
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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.
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The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.
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Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
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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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It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.
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It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
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