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.
HIPPOCRATESWalking is a man’s best medicine.
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Look to the seasons when choosing your cures
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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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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I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion.
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Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
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Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.
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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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There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.
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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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The human soul develops up to the time of death.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.
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